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• THIS IS PRI: DAVID CARR IS PROUD TO BE AMONG STATEN ISLAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED OFFICIALS
• ‘I’M A IEND, BROTHER, SON, AND I HAPPEN TO BE GAY,’ SAID RON CASTORA, S.I.’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN JUDGE

THIS IS PRI: DAVID CARR IS PROUD TO BE AMONG STATEN ISLAND’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED OFFICIALS

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‘I’M A IEND, BROTHER, SON, AND I HAPPEN TO BE GAY,’ SAID RON CASTORA, S.I.’S FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN JUDGE

” The New York tabloids prented the teen as a helpls victim of a psychotic homosexual attack. ” The Daily News ntrasted the “d” exprsn on Carr’s “young face” agast the “33 year old former English teacher” who, Carr claimed, was “a homosexual. By September, when Carr entered a guilty plea of first-gree manslghter, the Assistant District Attorney believed that Carr “had not tend to kill Kammerer, a homosexual, but that Kammerer for more than five years had persisted makg advanc to Carr, which always were repulsed.

Such playfulns unrsred Kerouac’s nflicted feelgs about his own queer sir—what Amburn terms Kerouac’s “homophobic homoeroticism. ” While the term tra referenced workg-class men who have sex wh other men for pay (often assumg the active role sex), also embodied a queer hypermasculy agast more effemate gay men. A iendly placlothman had already warned Jack that the ‘stooli’ had been promised fifty years off 199-year sentenc if they uld prove that Jack was gay.

” The term perast illtrated the anx distctn between tough masculy Kerouac valorized and the effect of the unmanly homosexual, who flicted both physil and psychologil harm on normal men, that he saw Kammerer.

Carr’s form of homosexual panic not only beme a powerful story about the Beats those early years; also poted to an creasgly nvcg fense for the murrs of queer men the many s to follow.

” While Gsberg’s retellg may have been part of his own fatuatn wh Carr, illtrat the nervo tensns between embracg and repulsg homosexual sir.

Gsberg’s story reveals Carr’s homosexual panic, his repulsn at his own latent homosexual sir, as motivatg the vlent stabbg.

Perhaps Carr’s vlence was a repulsn agast his own homosexual sir. Who: Gay Tale, David Carr, Andrew Rossi, morated by Bill Keller.

For all the chang that journalism is endurg now, Gay Tale said he believ that to do right you have to be out the field.