IV: a time and place when one's sex orientation did not need declared

[rich]

can we say in this day and age that sexual confusion doesn't
inherently mean gay? I don't get the connection frankly in this frank
society we live in here circa 2010, the true year of contact if you
catch my drift

I guess what I was saying was that there aren't any true gay/lesbian
characters in Pynchon's books--lots of weird bisex going on (and who
doesn't like that for variety if anything) but Weissman, Cyprian,
Frenesi--not gay imho. not a crticism mind you

and what is a gay book really? that only gays want to read. we have to
move on from such foolishness

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Good point. Note that the second "gayest" TRP novel is Gravity's Rainbow*
> and —the palimpsest thing goin' on in the novel again—sexual confusion of
> this sort being a very big part of L.A., circa 1970, that found its way into
> Gravity's Rainbow and Inherent Vice.
>
> * I'm plowing through it again, finding all sorts of resonances in Against
> the Day and Inherent Vice.
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> Anthony Lee Collins » thomas pynchon's gayest novel yet?
>> By Anthony Lee Collins
>> I was going to write that Inherent Vice has more gay people in it than any
>> of Pynchon's earlier novels (with the usual caveat that I only made it 200
>> pages into Against the Day), but as I thought about it I realized that
>> something much ...
>> Anthony Lee Collins - http://u-town.com/collins/
>>
>> I think he is right on this....as we have observed earlier about
>> ethnicity. All together as it should be in a fully-realized democracy.....
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