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fatimaI don't read The Village Voice so eagerly anymore as I did in my college days. (Back then their personal ads section was far, far more interesting with a whole load of sexual offers.) However, I am still in the habit of picking a copy up whenever I'm in Manhattan for the Counter Culture (restaurant review) section.
Besides, you can't exactly expect mainstream media such as NYT to print stuff like this:
That's where the simple categorizing of gay and straight turns troublesome. To the characters of Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party (discussed in Part 1 of this essay last week), Lincoln's sexual preference is a cut-and-dried issue: Either he was gay (no matter how many children he and Mary Todd produced) or he absolutely wasn't (no matter how intense his affection for Joshua Speed). The notion that he may have cherished, embraced, and perhaps even come to orgasm with Speed, and still been content with Mary and the kids, doesn't fit in the contemporary schema. At best, it would simply make Lincoln a tormented bisexual, grudgingly fulfilling his husbandly duty while his heart yearned to romp with the handsome flatboatmen of his youth.
Outing Abe
Besides, you can't exactly expect mainstream media such as NYT to print stuff like this:
That's where the simple categorizing of gay and straight turns troublesome. To the characters of Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party (discussed in Part 1 of this essay last week), Lincoln's sexual preference is a cut-and-dried issue: Either he was gay (no matter how many children he and Mary Todd produced) or he absolutely wasn't (no matter how intense his affection for Joshua Speed). The notion that he may have cherished, embraced, and perhaps even come to orgasm with Speed, and still been content with Mary and the kids, doesn't fit in the contemporary schema. At best, it would simply make Lincoln a tormented bisexual, grudgingly fulfilling his husbandly duty while his heart yearned to romp with the handsome flatboatmen of his youth.
Outing Abe
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ABE LINCOLN WAS A TOP
Date: 2010-09-08 11:41 pm (UTC)This line reminded me of Steve in Steve/Tony. -__-
Re: ABE LINCOLN WAS A TOP
Date: 2010-09-09 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-09 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-09 05:36 am (UTC)游戏本身的话，我上次可能忘记和你说了？我的山口山帐号很久都没付钱了……因为信用卡换号了- - 等CTM出来可能会回来吧……如果回来公会肯定会加的，不过那时候可能主要去玩部落了？Goblin太萌了……
T T
Date: 2010-09-09 03:27 pm (UTC)Re: T T
Date: 2010-09-09 03:59 pm (UTC)Re: T T
Date: 2010-09-10 05:41 pm (UTC)May I interest you in some Abe Lincoln & vampire slashiness?
Date: 2010-09-10 08:40 am (UTC)Here's the scene that had me squeeing inside:
Henry is teaching Abe how to hunt vampires, and Abe manages to ambush Henry and pin him down...
Abe: I feel... like a rabbit that has taken a fox for a teacher.
Henry: And I, a mouse that has taken a cat for a student.
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P.S. - I got the book free from my workplace, and you're welcome to it.