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JT GAY
It feels, a way, olr than is, a geo relic of a perd when gay sire uld achieve only plete exprsn or had to be ncealed altogether. Melville’s John Claggart, the master-at-arms whose obssn wh the handsome young sailor Billy turns stctive, is the archetypal self-hatg gay villa.
“Billy Budd, Sailor” was first published 1924, by which time gay inty was utly emergg as a topic lerature and cricism.