Comments on: Authenticity & Segregation

By: Stumbling Over Chaos :: ‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas and all through the blog, not a creature was stirring, not even a… cat

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:03:39 +0000

[...] addresses some of the issues that he found with the recent LA Weekly article about the writers of gay romance, and some well-known m/m writers [...]

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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:50:28 +0000

[...] The controversial LA Weekly article on the m/m phenomenon, with commentary from Teddypig. [...]

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:42:21 +0000

Honestly I put Maupin on a special shelf. He did not write a “fucking memoir as fictional confessional of how much I hated my gayself for half my miserable life”. Which is pretty much all that people were writing at the time.
So he writes a witty funny chatty book Tales Of The City from having lived in SF so long and writing a events column for a paper and then gets snubbed by the good old Gay Lit crowd for being a “journalist” blah blah blah. Oh, and because the book was funny because you know the gay is serious business.

So no, Maupin gets a pass from me because he had to put up with shit from these snobs.

By: Angelia Sparrow

Angelia Sparrow — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:16:30 +0000

I have magical crochet powers. My knitting powers are weak. (four hats and a shawl are my sum total)

Alex, feel free to borrow the phrase.

I mean I like Christopher Isherwood, but he and Maupin are not the be all and end all of gay lit.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:02:58 +0000

He’s totally trolling at this point. Right? *really hopes so*

@Ally said: “Having a vag gives me Magical Knitting Powers!”
Now he’s marginalizing gay knitters?!

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:41:46 +0000

He was probably quoting directly from the snobtastic Lambda Literary Foundation talking points play book.

I’ve heard it recited a million times and it never changes. Must protect the virtues of those dead white guys.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:39:06 +0000

I was rather surprised that of the male gay writers he cited, all were white and all but one born well-off, if not rich and/or titled. Heaven knows I didn’t except him to city gay or bisexual women writers of any race, because girls have cooties, but where were Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Samuel R. Delany, to name just a few black gay male writers?

By: Ally Blue

Ally Blue — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:00:29 +0000

I know, right? Dang. My Sooper Dooper Magic Femaleness fails me again <_<

Pretty amusing that David insults gays that don't measure up to his standards right along with us hysterical, mediocre, knitting women.

By: Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:42:57 +0000

Oh and yes, I think he’s doing it deliberately. The man makes his living with words, after all, so he must know that he’s coming across as intolerably rude and sexist. Either he genuinely doesn’t care, or he’s doing it in an effort to get us to lose our temper and insult him back. Can you imagine the mileage he could get from “Straight Women(TM) writers of ‘m/m’ fiction insult a Genuine Gay Man(TM)”? It would be like the “Ally!fail” pile on that happened on LJ after some people said they disagreed with the Lambda Literary Awards excluding straight writers.

Also, where are my Magical Knitting Powers, damn it? I’ve only tried to learn three times and failed.

By: Alex Beecroft

Alex Beecroft — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:32:16 +0000

Ah! I thought that blend of erudition and good argument sounded familiar :)

LOL! Angela, I love the phrase “penis-given wisdom”! Can I borrow it? I’m sure I’ll have lots of opportunities to use it in the future.