Contents:
- "NAKED BOYS" EXPOSED GAY-THEMED MOVIE
- REMEMBER HOW DH D’SOUZA OUTED GAY CLASSMAT—AND THOUGHT IT WAS AWOME?
"NAKED BOYS" EXPOSED GAY-THEMED MOVIE
” is g to the big bare posterrs of the 10-member st are beg prerved for postery at Los Angel’ Hayworth Theater, where the gay-themed project is set to plete shootg this openg at L. The Milwkee Gay Arts Center productn of the show, featurg such origal songs as “I Beat My Meat, ” “Perky Ltle Porn Star” and “Noth’ but the Rad On, ” was closed by the lol vice squad last year. He…also gloated over an famo Review article that had outed members of Dartmouth’s Gay Stunt Associatn and published excerpts of letters wrten by the group’s members.
) He and his surroundg alyt also gloated over an famo Review article that had outed members of Dartmouth’s Gay Stunt Associatn and published excerpts of letters wrten by the group’s members. Ne years later, when D’Souza was beg hailed upon the publitn of his book, Illiberal Edutn: The Polics of Race and Sex on Camp—the Washgton Post lled him “palpably smart, ” “sober-md, ” and a “gentleman”—I wrote a short piece The Natn and relled that I had once wnsed him boastg about improperly purlog documents for the gay-namg article. D’Souza cried foul, claimg that the Review had not ed any unrhand means to ga accs to rmatn about the members of the Gay Stunt Associatn.
In his rponse to my origal article, D’Souza had mataed that the Review had only prted the nam of the officers of the Gay Stunt Associatn, and had loted this rmatn, along wh the personal letters wrten by gay stunts, publicly available rerds the group had filed wh the school admistratn. In other words, the Review had done nothg untoward to unearth the nam of the gay stunts outed; the paper had merely relied on public rmatn submted by the group self. (Put asi, for the sake of this tale, the proby—or mean-spiredns—of outg a fellow stunt whose sexual orientatn might not be known beyond the mp gay muny.
REMEMBER HOW DH D’SOUZA OUTED GAY CLASSMAT—AND THOUGHT IT WAS AWOME?
As the New York Tim reported at the time, “One [gay] stunt named [by the Review], acrdg to his iends, beme severely prsed and talked repeatedly of suici.
The grandfather of another who had not found the urage to tell his fay of his homosexualy learned about his grandson when he got his py of the Review the mail. At first, I took D’Souza at this word, acceptg his acunt that the Review had ed public rmatn for s article namg the officers of the Gay Stunt Associatn, and nveyed that the rrectn.
” And there was this: She poted out that shortly before the Review published s article namg the gay stunts, some documents had disappeared om the GSA’s sk a stunt center. But relishg the outg of gay stunts (and at that luncheon there was much relishg) and engagg dirty tricks to obta those nam—well, that speaks not to iology, but character.