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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.
” Vere observ that Billy is “a fe specimen of the gen homo, who the nu might have posed for a statue of young Adam before the Fall, ” and tends to promote the sailor to a posn “that would more equently brg him unr his own observatn.