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Originally Posted by knox
why is that so disturbing, when burroughs was homosexual himself and etc.
can someone e-book junky please?
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when art spiegelman writes about the holocaust, it doesn't suddenly become a sunny picnic just because the author is jewish. likewise, when burroughs describes the raids on bathhouses and clubs that took place when homosexuality was basically criminalized... and these types of raids really happened, not merely figments of burroughs' admittedly paranoid imagination... the types of raids that eventually led to the uprising at the Stonewall Inn...
... honestly, if you fail to see why this is heavy stuff, i can't help you...