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Name::straighttalker05
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I'm an avid dreamer. I have big ideas, and I'll probably take them somewhere. Watch this space. I want to present what I think - and not with words minced up into an acceptable platter. Some things need to be told straight - particularly gay rights. Particularly life in the closet, it's very nature means no one hears it. If they do it's usually tinted with nostalgia. I'm confident, I know what I like and what I don't. Please don't confuse this for arrogance. I'm probably more insecure then you imagine.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Radcylffe and I


I was going to write this earlier, but I got sidelined by a Tatu video which is, to put it mildly, awful, and yet strangely provocative.

To be fair there is also little to report in my life. School has ended and I am in my yearly study hibernation. My first exam is next Tuesday, and I am patiently wasting time before that. Every year I say I’ll study really hard, and end up doing little more than I did the year before.

Perhaps the only thing pushing me this year is the need to get away to England for University. However, apparently browsing GaydarGirls for the Midlands is also not a beneficial use of my time as my exams approach. It is however more interesting that the Act of Union in 1800.

My mother has been scolding me like the child I am. I apparently drive too fast, and every time I open the door I get begged to drive safely. I’m only going to get a pint of milk. Also, apparently, looking forward to my future is forbidden. It may make people here feel insignificant. Sorry for having ambition mother.

In other news in the world of Straight Talker, I have obtained a copy of “The Trials of Radclyffe Hall” which I am reading by night and hiding my day. It was actually my mother who found it in the second hand bookshop; I just popped down later to buy it. It is rich in detail, and suggests the wonderfully scandalous life of Hall’s lovers who appear to bring husbands and all into the domestic arrangement. Also, apparently Hall was dyslexic and had to get someone to correct all her spelling mistakes (usually her partners). Imagine what life must have been like without Microsoft Word.

I am babbling, because I have left this late for a study-tired-caffeine-fuelled-student. To bed and Radcyffle Hall I go.

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6 Comments:

Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

I came across you via a post you did on another blog about gay literature. I read 'The Well of Loneliness' as a teenager and was incredibly moved by it. I found it in my grandmother's bookshelf. She wasn't a lesbian (or, at least, I don't think she was) but she must have been quite open-minded about certain things as she wasn't about all things.

In your post you say how you mainly read lesbian literature and you mention Winterston, one of the few lesbian authors I actively seek out. I enjoy reading gay literature but find I hardly ever look out for it specifically these days. At one time, I made a special effort to read all and any I came across but found that a lot of it is dross. These days I seem to prefer novels that aren't specifically gay but where there is a gay undercurrent.

I've wondered before if that's a function of growing older or just a function of me? A very good lesbian friend of mine here in Nottingham is in her late thirties and reads almost nothing else apart from lesbian fiction so it may just be me.

Mon May 29, 02:51:00 PM  
Blogger straighttalker05 said...

I wouldn't say I read exclusively gay literature - I enjoy gay themed literature, but then I enjoy all good literature.

There are alot of gay writers looking to exploit what is quite a small market. They write poor quality novels and sell them as 'coming of age' tales.

Winterson is fabulous, the being a lesbian thing is a bonus.

Oh, and where did you find my article on another site?

Mon May 29, 03:32:00 PM  
Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

I assume you must have seen the TV production of 'Oranges aren't the only fruit'? Saw it years ago when it first came out. Harrowling brilliant!

I found you here

Mon May 29, 04:14:00 PM  
Blogger straighttalker05 said...

Yeah - I got the 'Oranges' series on dvd. Watching it now is weird coz it's outdated, but the structure is still there, and hearing all the lines from the book makes me smile...

The link won't work. This makes me sad.

Mon May 29, 04:19:00 PM  
Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

Sorry about the link, I'm sure that I put it in correctly. Here it is again:

http://shirokumashinbun.blogspot.com/2006/05/reading-queer-literaturea-lire-la.html

Hope that works.

Mon May 29, 08:11:00 PM  
Blogger straighttalker05 said...

Hey Jules!

Glad you staggered along and found me hanging around here!

Feel free to email me at straighttalker05@hotmail.com

-ST

Tue May 30, 08:15:00 AM  

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