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FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION of his gural novel, Cy of Night, 1963, John Rechy beme wily celebrated as the bad boy of Amerin gay lerature. Tracg the rtls odyssey of an unnamed “youngman” (Rechy’s preferred term for a sexually sirable male) om El Paso to var ci around the untry and home aga, the novel provid the Amerin mastream wh s first exposure to gay htlers, johns, drag queens, and other habants of the sexual unrworld.

And Rechy, who regularly posed for photographs mcle te or nim shirts open to the navel, succsfully fashned himself as a gay Promeths Unbound who fiantly challenged the social stat quo and promulgated a radil gospel of sexual liberatn six years advance of Stonewall.

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Rechy ntued to explore the operatns of the gay mimon Numbers (1967), which a “youngman” named Johnny R cis the parks, beach and movie theaters of Los Angel, havg sex wh thirty men unr ten days.

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Subtled “A Documentary, ” the pastiche juxtapos news reports about cints of anti-gay discrimatn and vlence wh episos om a three-day long “sexhunt” (Rechy’s term) of a Los Angel htler named Jim. The book prov to be an apologia pro va sua which the protagonist’s fense of his life—his fiance of sodomy laws, his circumventn of rpt vice ps, and his refal to adhere to the Mattache Society’s attempts to make gay men and women appear normal and th ls threateng to the heterosexual majory—alc a celebratn of sexual outlawry, which Rechy prents as a heroic rejectn of Ameri’s Ozzie and Harriet placency. Consequently, is not unfair to thk of Rechy, who st such a long shadow over the 1960s and ’70s lerary scene, as a rnchy, gay Hugh Hefner, provotively jtifyg his right to take physil pleasure om whatever alyte is willg to worship at the altar of his narcissism, and refg to feel shame that he r so ltle for his partners.

By the mid-1980s, however, as the gay muny stggled to re for the thoands of iends and lovers who had veloped full-blown AIDS, Rechy’s valorizatn of “sexhuntg” began to sound like the Siren Song that had led so many liv to their doom. Gay rears did not abandon Rechy, but his Peter Berl-style narcissism grew wearyg.

Not even a sympathetic bgraphy of him by Charl Casillo 2002 uld renew tert Rechy as a groundbreakg gay wrer. Fallen AngelsCast & crewUser reviewsEpiso aired Oct 15, 199531mJohnny is a lift boy by day and a ld-hearted hman for an unhged gay gangster lled Charn by night.

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