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Just How Queer Is Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Anyway?
I didn’t recognize the William Burroughs I knew in it. So I got on a Zoom with the director.
Still, a bad match of director and material renders confusion at best, emptiness at worst; I worried that this film could potentially misconstrue the importance of Burroughs’s role as a visionary queer writer for future generations. Ginsberg helped Burroughs arrange a deal for two pulpy, thematically related novels told in the first person with Ace, a publisher whose primary market was reached through spinning racks in drugstores throughout America. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: ‘I was a homosexual.’ I thought of the painted simpering female impersonators I’d seen in a Baltimore nightclub.
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