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1

wonderful prose there Matt.
glad to see a tribute paid to LK.

2

He was a marvel of a man. Than you Matt.

3

Well said. Rest in power, Mr Kramer.

4

If a newspaper's job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, Larry did their job better than the NYT did.

5

I remember seeing a stage production of The Normal Heart in Seattle in the 80's. It was an angry, shocking to the max, an unforgettable scene of describing an AIDs patient losing their bowels not the airplane, yelling, despair, and on and on. The audience was stunned.

Yeah, we get you Larry and your "you better as mad as I am or else" lament. Perhaps admirable for a while, but hardly productive for a society to heal from AIDs.

The NYT is quite apt in using the word "abusive".

6

*on the airplane

7

@5 LMAO. You're contradicting yourself. You're criticizing the anger he expressed IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC because it wasn't healing AT THE TIME. Maybe you could rephrase, because if you're saying that he remained bitter and angry well past the point that was reasonable, perhaps you could a) define that time, b) tell us why he should get over the needless loss inflicted upon him, and c) explain why he has any duty to help the nation that tried to wipe him and all gay men out through not-so-benign neglect heal.

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@7 Exactly. It is the same as all of the white people who demand that black people and anyone else enraged remain calm and not rush to judgement (or riot or demand justice or protest or express anger) every time a cop kills a black person.

It is far beyond time for this country to face a reckoning. The system of white supremacist terrorism enforced from birth to death against black people needs to be dismantled and destroyed BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY and it needs to be done by white people. It is white people who need to refuse to allow it to exist anymore and refuse to continue to sit back and benefit from it and who need to refuse to pretend that it does not exist.

All of the white people who refuse to stand up and actively work to destroy the system of white supremacist terrorism in this country can be destroyed right along with it.

9

No thesis required, @7. Just my commentary on a legendary and controversial artist.

Who also had the gall to title his novel one of the meanest homophobic slurs at the time: FAGGOTS.

I used to attend ACT UP meetings in Seattle during the 80s. I felt the anger, but I've always believed it was the means to an end, not to be cultivated and seduced by its power and influence.

10

Mr Drop - Interesting. When and how did you turn?

At the time? Surely you don't think Mr Savage's One Good Gaying by attempting to reclaim the word has reduced its meanness. or that the haters have been sufficiently innovative to succeed in modernizing their slurs. As for his titling, Mr K was one of a number of writers for whom that was their general vocabulary. They almost all seem fairly dated now, but one might consider them, in modern parlance, prototypical edgef**s.

Mr Matt - Fair enough (and not deserving of appropriation), though one does regularly see that certain sorts of activism and activists have difficulties over aging. When a multi-pronged approach is required for progress, I feel for those on the prong(s) that turn out not to be the way one wishes to go forwards after the crisis is resolved.

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@9:

You've always seemed to be fairly intelligent - for an unabashed conservative, which is practically an oxymoron these days - so I'm a little surprised you don't understand the concept of "linguistic reappropriation".


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