Is Marlowe a Racist?

John Carvill johncarvill at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 02:35:37 CDT 2009


> It's not as if there were a lot of heterosexual, openly pro-gay writers in the US at the time.  Can anyone name one?  You can't really attack someone for being a product of their times.
>
> Laura

Yes, fair point. And we still don't know what Chandler's attitude
really was. I'd guess he was pretty confilcted on the matter: in his
heart he felt he should be on the side of homosexuals, as they were
the underdog, but in his head he realised he felt too uncomfortable
about homosexuality to have an easy or uncomplicated relationship with
the idea of someone being gay. Chandler went to an English 'Public'
(i.e. private) school, so who knows what wen to there.



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