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Yet one can find people that disagree the characters in Giovanni's Room made love, or people that disagree Lysis and Alexias ever made love in Last of the Wine.
Was a difficult task getting the point across back in the 50s and 60s, to get that published.
Call it what you will.  Clever, subtle, deft, and so on.

I think he as most great writers was most subtle.
At the same time as flaming across the sky as a comet. Like Hemingway, Faulkner, the 19th-century greats, on and on. All the way back to Gawain & Chaucer & before.
For many reasons, reader-influencing etc etc etc

The sequel to CMBYN was published 8 months ago but I just read it now. Find Me. It is not in 1st person Elio narration. The 15-year and 20-year epilogues were woven in reasonably well but what seemed a little strange is that Aciman departed from the initial base time frames, ie, summer of love ‘83 (consistent with track song Lady Lady Lady in the film). 
Unless this was unintentional or missed by editors the only reasons I could think of were to somewhat reference modern mobile phone etiquette (as in one passage) or to bypass the height of the AIDS epidemic. The initial Italian summer was referenced as having been a few decades back from the latest historical time point in the new novel but would essentially have been in the 21st century as opposed to the New Wave era. 
My sense is that the book cannot be easily coaxed into a screenplay that would have sufficient coherence with its predecessor or the ages of the film actors playing the characters featured in both books. 

Saw Daddy's main post today was about vote.org which is misguided and unfortunate.  They are a private organization that sells your info.  
https://vote.gov/
Is the correct site.  
Now IS the time to register, or to request absentee voting!
Also, please return your absentee voting ballots SOONER than later!  There's going to be an avalanche of ballots which many states won't be prepared for, and the longer the outcome is in doubt the more chance Cheeto Mussolini will have to discredit the election.  
 

Threads evolve over time.  I doubt many people  set out to hijack a thread.
 
More important, people who just join a forum have the exact same statue as those who have posted for decades. 

An early 2019 article in GQ also looked back at Baldwin for perspective.  Baldwin saw the handwriting on the wall and moved to France, as did the main character in Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's novel of an American's despair.
I love the article's images of Baldwin's style.

 
 

The BBC airs a comedy show where nothing is off limits.
This one made me laugh out loud.
I hope you all out there are not offended. It turns popular prejudices inside out.

Geez Louise. Something awful must have happened to you. I could write a lot more but I don't have the time. Your attitude is very defeatist, very cynical. 
I was the first executive in my stodgy, conservative luxe corporation to recruit Black, Latino, and Asian artists. I made it my mission to teach my stubborn White elders (several of them racists) the wisdom and foresight of diversity. I taught my recruits how to strive and thrive in creative business. I fully gave back what was given to me. Most of my recruits went on to live the American Dream.
I know countless business people in our Capitalist system who believe in paying it forward and leaving no man behind. I stand among them, proudly.

Somehow Mencken''s quote makes today seem less frightening, that we've been through this before,  looking back at Harding & Coolidge.

Again, your de-facto party set a real low bar there with the second Reagan term.  
 

No documentation as usual, just hysterical blatter from mysterious sources on the fringes.

IMHO, any President who is given paper for a briefing, got it. It was in the reports and he received it.  Did he have someone sit and dumb it down for him?  Most likely not. That is on him and the nuts that elected him.

Your posts are getting a bit bazaar. Try to perhaps mix in more main stream media, like CNN.

Personally, I'm a big fan of boycotts and Chik-fil-A gave me my hardest test yet.  I kept hearing how great it was but also how many bad causes they sent their money to.  I sure didn't want them forwarding any of my money.
As you might expect, it was nearly impossible to find one in the liberal Bay Area so it was only when I visited family back East that the conflict became real.  A few years ago, I got as close as their parking lot but was saved by the fact that it was Sunday and they were closed.  I toyed with the idea of poking around in the dumpster for a free sample but apparently I was not the only one with this idea.


Fast forward to last year when I learned that, not only were they donating to pro-gay causes, they had also just opened up twenty miles away across from my Costco.  A week later, I found myself in a long line waiting for my Deluxe Combo, large fries and a chocolate Hand-Spun shake, whatever the hell that means.  
Now, at long last, I can report that it was anything but worth the wait.  Not to me anyway.  The chicken was OK, but no better than KFC.  The "biscuit" was only a little fluffier than cardboard and a bit less flavorful.  The french fries were likewise bland, and a pickle no more goes with chicken than a feather boa goes with board shorts.
It was the milkshake that was most disappointing and, had I bothered reading the ingredients first, I'd never have ordered it.
Whole milk and nonfat dry milk, sugar, cream, water, contains less than 1% of: whey, mono and diglycerides, corn starch, guar gum, carrageenan, calcium sulfate, cellulose gum, brown sugar, natural and artificial flavor, natural flavor, salt, caramel color, beta-carotene (color), annatto (color), chocolate syrup (cane sugar, corn syrup, water, cocoa, natural vanilla flavor)
At the very least, I'd have asked them to serve the guar gum, carageenan, calcium sulfate, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides and artificial flavor on the side so that I could add them to taste.
Don't get me wrong.  I've had worse fast food.  The spicy mutton curry at Little Taste of Calcutta, for example, kept me toilet-bound for three days but the price was right and my table came with its own fly swatter.
So, for me anyway, the boycott merely delayed the inevitable and Chik-fil-A is officially off my list for culinary, if no longer political, reasons.  They could hire RuPaul as a car hop and I still wouldn't go back.

Like I said, the fucking chicken sandwiches can't possibly taste good enough for me to give one cent of my own money to that company.  

I do care. I do not go to certain stores and buy certain products because the owners are anti-gay or racists. I will not spend my money making them wealthy. Your money is yours and you can do with it as you wish. Your time is yours and the same applies. However, I have a aversion to supporting someone or some company that goes against my own beliefs.

I was not planning to open a thread here at BoyToy about this topic, but the post where I said my goodbye to you has been deleted. In case you stop by here I invite you to stay, but also to read what was deleted exactly as it was written, with no editions. You have my word on that.
"It has been an amazing ride. I will always be thankful to this community, especially to the many members who honored me with their friendship. I have learned and grown a lot, and I thank you.
I can participate in a community with racist members who open threads like “Oh My Wakanda”. I would even defend their right to express their opinion, no matter how shameful and ignorant. If they are too much for me, I could block them. After all, I already blocked the annoying idiots. The annoying racists could easily join them.
I could bury my head in The Deli.
However, I find that I can no longer participate in this community, after its leadership has taken a clear stand in this thread, “BLM is Racist”.
I will miss the friends. A lot.
(here I tagged the three admins) or whoever is responsible for it,  cancel my account here, please.
If the leadership ever decides to publicly endorse BLACK LIVES MATTER, or at least publicly apologize for opening this disheartening thread, I will be happy to return. That is, if I will still be accepted back, because as much as I do not want to leave, I find that I must.
BLACK LIVES MATTER. Period.
Goodbye."
I have formally asked my account to be deleted, and will be no longer submitting escorts reviews to Daddy's.

He wants to continue to think of us a silly, cocksuckers first, before anything else, and that we should have no cause to protest his old school ways of referring to our sexual habits every chance he can get.  As comedians go, he's not exactly fresh.

Agree he is kind of a one-note without much nuance, & totally without any self-awareness.

Recently I have read a few books of gay interest. My favorite is Someday, Someday. It's a gay romance where two guys struggle with their feelings.
That is nothing new, but the author, Emma Scott, does a bang-up job on the story, keeping the reader entranced to the very end.
Here's some amazon info about the novel:

EVERYONE needs to read this book! Riveting, electric, and poignant. Emma does not waste her words. Every sentence, every line of this story was magic.--Kate Stewart USA Today Bestselling Author

How long would you wait for love?

Max Kaufman was kicked out of his home as a teen and his life has been an uphill battle ever since. From addiction and living on the streets, to recovery and putting himself through nursing school, he’s spent the last ten years rebuilding his shattered sense of self. Now he’s taken a job as a private caretaker to Edward Marsh III, the president and CEO of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Max soon learns Marsh’s multi-billion-dollar empire is a gold and diamond-encrusted web of secrets and lies.

The longer Max works and lives with the Marsh family, the tighter the secrets tangle around him. And his heart—that he’s worked so hard to protect—falls straight into the hands of the distant, cold, and beautiful son of a dynasty…

Silas Marsh is set to inherit the family fortune, but his father is determined his heir be the “perfect” son. Before Silas can take over the company and end its shady business practices, he must prove himself worthy…and deny his true nature.

Silas must choose: stand up to his father by being true to himself and his undeniable feelings for Max. Or pretend to be someone he is not in order to inherit everything. Even if it means sacrificing a chance at happiness and real love.  (all copied from Amazon)
 
The second novel, Toy, (as in boytoy!) is more on the fun side.
Toy: a contemporary m/m romance.
(From Amazon:)
Troy the toy isn’t looking for a relationship. He gets all the sex he needs whilst working at Priapus: a brothel in inner city Melbourne.

Over the past three years, he has learned to turn himself off and load his Tommy program whenever he is with a client. A saleable commodity in today’s consumer society, he is well aware that his cute twink appeal has an expiry date, but he is content for now with the status quo.

That is, until his homophobic high school bully books an appointment.

Seeing Nick Stephanides again after all these years gives Troy’s operating system a bit of a jolt. Troy has always assumed that Nick is straight, but Nick is gay, lonely and determined to start a bromance with Troy. How can Troy say no to those broad shoulders?

Troy and Nick begin a tentative friendship, whilst Troy continues to provide good customer service to his clients, some of whom have very interesting requests.

Offering advice and support are his friends at Priapus: Melissa, his manager, who keeps a maternal eye on her boys, Brett, the bear and Ari, the surfie dude, whose passionate love affair is the catalyst for much soul searching, Qiu, the cheery Goth and Damien, the beautiful redhead who, for some reason, tenses up at the mere suggestion that Troy might one day break his dating embargo.

And then there’s Desmond the politician, who pays to watch Troy dance.

Of course, Troy’s operating system is bound to glitch sooner or later. Will it be Nick who finally sneaks under his defences? There is that ancient proverb about Greeks bearing gifts… "

Finally, gay lawyer and author Michael Nava has created an entire series of novels about a gay lawyer named Henry Rios. Every novel in the series is well done. Nava retired from writing several years ago, but recently came out with a long-awaited new novel, Carved In Bone.
Again, from Amazon, the synopsis: Was Bill Ryan's death an accident? Henry Rios has his doubts.
The first new Henry Rios novel in 20 years from six-time Lambda Literary award winner Michael Nava is a brilliantly plotted mystery that weaves together the gripping story of two gay men against the backdrop of 1980s San Francisco as the tsunami of AIDS bears down upon the city.
Kirkus Review says: "Delivering an unusual subject and structure, this tale offers refreshing emotional depth and a gay narrative seldom seen in thrillers."
90% of ts Amazon ratings are five star. I really liked it and am glad to have Nava writing again.

So, do you have good gay novels to recommend? I am always ready for a new one!

I am always left wondering: "How much of what Bill Maher says, and how he says it, is really a reflection of his thinking, and how much of it is a shock jock trying to boost his ratings?" I lean toward Option B.

Have always wanted to go there & hear.
If our Republic survives, maybe one day...

There is quite an organ in Balboa Park in San Diego.   They include a rousing Star Spangled Banner with each concert.  Love that park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugKHxo39L_4