tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post8153969089391744795..comments2024-03-29T01:02:03.688-07:00Comments on Raybeard: A Fine Read - Radclyffe Hall's 'The Well of Loneliness'Raybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-86102096035103740142010-03-22T01:53:07.092-07:002010-03-22T01:53:07.092-07:00Larry, it was pretty much par for the course to tr...Larry, it was pretty much par for the course to treat any work which depicted gays in any way sympathetically as being 'obscene', for fear, I suppose, of encouraging that sort of 'immoral' behaviour. Also in films where anyone was portrayed by implication, or rarely explicitly, as being gay, it was only permissible for them to be treacherous, villanous, evil etc. It was in the 1970s in this country that things started to change for the better.<br />As for Paris, suffice it to say that we fought like two rival cats on heat. It was later that I found out something about myself that explained it - and why I've never been able to maintain any lasting friendship in person.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-26927954469217453732010-03-21T08:21:52.203-07:002010-03-21T08:21:52.203-07:00Good stuff Ray. It's upsetting to me that any...Good stuff Ray. It's upsetting to me that any court would find a book "obscene" merely because it contains gay characters and situations. We rely to courts to rise above the petty biases of the public, not wallow in it. I'm glad modern courts have improved somewhat in this, but too often I still see evidence of courts making illogical, emotional decisions.<br /><br />I'd like to know more about your drama in Paris. It saddens me that you would lose a friend.Cubbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12659801291785890663noreply@blogger.com