On 7/28/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Both of you are qualified to offer your information.
Here's a man who is more qualified to offer information than either of us: Juan Goytisolo. <blockquote>As with Genet, whose novels describe the lowlife of Barcelona and Tangier and who later championed both the Palestinian cause and the Black Panthers, Goytisolo's sexual awakening, which did not occur in his case until his 30's, was intimately linked to his political sympathy for those on the margins of society. In an Arab bar in Paris in 1963, Goytisolo met an Algerian laborer called Mohamed, and they began a relationship that drew the Spanish writer into what he soon realized was his ideal habitat. He became scribe to a fraternity of clandestines who needed money sent home to their families or needed their scrapes with the French authorities straightened out, and in exchange he got sex and Arabic lessons. (He told one interviewer that by comparison with the romantic companionship he had with Lange, homosexual sex was, for him, akin to a commercial transaction: "There is friendship but no love.") [Monique] Lange somewhat sadly agreed to accept the open relationship he proposed, much to the relief of Goytisolo, who had no interest in assuming an exclusively gay identity. (He and Lange lived together between Paris and Morocco until her death in 1996.) Even today, this remains the case. "I sign petitions for gay rights," he told me, "but it is not my thing. In countries I love, there is no necessity. I have relationships with many men who are married; I have very good relations with their wives, their children. There are too many frontiers in the world. I don't want to put frontiers in my private life." (Fernanda Eberstadt, "The Anti-Orientalist," April 16, 2006, <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/magazine/16goytisolo.html?ei=5070&en=8b84b032fe7c1059&ex=1154232000&pagewanted=print>)</blockquote> Capitalism has yet to standardize sexuality in the entire world! -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
