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Have You Seen Your Brother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?

His friend, Seymour, a plump international queen with dark glasses and a rain coat slung around his shoulders, interrupts to talk about gay liberation. He things GLF should be training guerrilla bands of homosexuals to go round beating and robbing straights and queer bashers.

February 1, 1973
Vince Aletti

His friend, Seymour, a plump international queen with dark glasses and a rain coat slung around his shoulders, interrupts to talk about gay liberation. He things GLF should be training guerrilla bands of homosexuals to go round beating and robbing straights and queer bashers. “The only riling this stupid bourgeois society understands is fear. Physical fear. Look at the blacks. They never got any respect until the Panthers started carrying guns and it became impossible for white society to spend Saturday night out in Harlem. Homosexuals have a political right and duty to terrorize straight male heterosexuals. Look what I carry.” He pulled out a little ice pick from his handbag. “I used it once, in Barcelona.”

from “Somerset Maugham in Morocco,” an article in 6Z by Jim Anderson

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