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LARRY KRAMER: 'HOW ULD YOU NOT REALISE MARK TWA WAS GAY?'
Huck Fn, Tom Sawyer and Homosexualy. For example 's very easy to read a gay loveaffair to David Copperfield (David and Steerforth) but I'm not sure 'sthere (and I'm certaly sure that even if is, Dickens didn't tendthe mass of his rears to pick up on ).
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WAS TOM SAWYER OR HUCK FN GAY?
”“Most histori are wrten by straight people who wouldn’t know, see the signs that a gay person do when they look at a person’s life, ” Kramer said.
“I mean, how uld you wre the life of Mark Twa whout realisg that he was hugely, hugely gay? I don’t know how you uld avoid the assumptn that he’s gay.
)Other proment historil figur are also re-imaged (or re-stated) as gay. There are other wrers, like Melville, whose gayns is obv to Kramer.