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    <title>Queer Pop Culture</title>
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    <description>Culture high and low: books, music, movies, sometimes those with gay or queer themes</description>
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      <title>Bad Boys in the Band</title>
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      <description>Adult gay romance based on Boys in the Bad</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Not counting a few Italian homoerotic art movies Boys in the Band was for many years the only gay movie I&#8217;d seen. (Really I just started to get caught up a few years ago.) Wonder if Mart Crowley ever saw...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Images</dc:subject>
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      <title>That Man From C.A.M.P. reviewed</title>
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      <description>The hero of these remarkable books is the blonde effete Jackie Holmes.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Sydney Star Observer reviews That Man from C.A.M.P: Rebel Without a Pause. Gay pulp novelist Victor J. Banis became quite an underground cult sensation with his Man From C.A.M.P. series of gay erotic spy stories. Three of these have...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
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      <title>Victor Banis 2004</title>
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      <description>List of Victor Banis books that are being  reissued or forthcoming.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Victor Banis on his upcoming projects: &#8230; my old editor at Greenleaf, Earl Kemp, has an online magazine eI, and I did some articles for him. I have a book of memoirs, SPINE INTACT, SOME CREASES, coming out in September....]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Gay Themed</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-07-18T09:56:31-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Forgotten gay writers, musicians, artists?</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/gay_themed/forgotten_gay_writers_mu.php</link>
      <description>Rediscovering, recovering gay novelists, poets, musicians, artists, painters, photographers who&apos;ve been forgotten by later generationf of queer men.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Through a sheer fluke I found myself exchanging a couple of emails with gay novelist Victor Banis. Thankfully one gay publisher has thought to revive some of Banis&#8217; work. Queer theorists and gay academics on and off have engaged in...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Gay Themed</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-07-14T20:34:16-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Trust Fund Boys</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/gay_themed/trust_fund_boys.php</link>
      <description>Robert Byrne&apos;s new gay comic novel Trust Fund Boys, have you bought it yet?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Sometime back I wrote about Rob Byrne&#8217;s The Night We Met. His response to my comments was very kind so I want to wish him the best success with Trust Fund Boys. Rob Byrne&#8217;s Trust Fund Boys...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Gay Themed</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-05-21T17:24:42-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Free gay short fiction</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/gay_themed/free_gay_short_fiction.php</link>
      <description>Gay short fiction by gay men and women, tranvesvestites and bisexuals</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I get lots of requests to post links, mostly automated spam requests from bottom-tier ecommerce sites that scan domain registration data. Then there&#8217;s the rare exception. Lots of people scan the web hoping for interesting fiction to read. An honest...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Gay Themed</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-04-26T14:39:12-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The kindness of gay strangers</title>
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      <description>Guy made a few suggestions of gay authors that I might enjoy</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I mentioned a fellow bringing in a bunch of gay fiction to my shop. I&#8217;d asked him if he could think of any funny gay authors. He said he&#8217;d give it a thought and give me a call back. Honestly...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-01-12T16:04:20-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Heinlein vs. Taken</title>
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      <description>Nowadays science fiction appeals to the gullible, the stupid, the morons.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hasty, unedited rant. When I was a kid growing up I read lots and lots of science fiction. The old Winston Juvenile series, some of which were written by Lester Del Rey. A few were written by no one since...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-11-10T19:04:32-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Depressing gay fiction</title>
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      <description>Queer novels featuring closet cases, Boys in the Band,The City and the Pillar</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Do you remember when gay fiction was depressing? Huh - ? - would be a fair reaction. In the days since AIDS much gay fiction is anything but cheerful. I'm thinking of what might be called The City and the...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Gay Themed</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-10-27T14:47:57-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Witty, literate gay novelists?</title>
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      <description>Funny gay writers like Alan Hollinghurst and Joe Keenan or maybe even Robert Rob Rodi.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Farce and social comedy are my biases in fiction: P.G. Wodehouse, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Sharpe, Kingsley Amis. Working in a used bookshop gives me a chance to scan many gay authors hoping to find gay novels that will...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Gay Themed</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-09-17T18:39:05-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A couple of books on the English Reformation</title>
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      <description>G. R. Elton: Reform &amp; Reformation: England, 1509-1558 and A.G. Dickens: The English Reformation</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Once upon a time Europeans were all Roman Catholic. OK, that ignores the Orthodox churches. Western Europeans all acknowledged the Pope as the boss of the world (except when a powerful emperor thought otherwise.) On and off people disgusted by...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-08-16T18:15:46-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Mediocre book on Elizabeth I</title>
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      <description>Pedestrian history of the reign of Elizabeth I.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Wallace McCaffrey's Elizabeth I isn't bad enough to bitch about. I don't even have much to say about it. I might not have been so strongly disappointed if I hadn't read a couple of strong histories of the Henrican reformation...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-08-16T17:48:06-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Invention of Ancient Israel</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/the_invention_of_ancient_.php</link>
      <description>The Invention of Ancient Israel: the Silencing of Palestinian History by Keith D. Whitelam</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As a teen I was born again as the fundamentalists like to call it (vide I get saved). Luckily I reasoned my way out of it. Erratically for the last few years I've been interested in the history of Christianity....]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-08-16T17:32:38-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Shakespeare: scholars &amp; crackpots</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/shakespeare_scholars_c.php</link>
      <description>Shakespeare&apos;s Lives by Schoenbaum, a look at honest if misguided scholarship,  foolish Baconians and Oxfordians, and forgers.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Samuel Schoenbaum's Shakespeare's Lives is a history of Shakespeare scholarship and folklore, not that the distinction is always a sure one. I'd been curious about Edmund Malone, who I knew only as Boswell's friend and helper. Textual criticism, first called...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-08-16T17:04:34-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pomo-babble</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/pomobabble.php</link>
      <description>pomo-babble</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[To commit a sentence like that is to subtract from the sum of human knowledge. Writes Robert Fulford in the National Post. Humanities scholars spend lots of time reading, so why can't they write?...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-07-17T08:44:24-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Green carnation a secret queer symbol?</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/green_carnation_a_secret_.php</link>
      <description>The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[By Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson: The 10 most popular misconceptions about Oscar Wilde...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-28T07:30:02-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pictures from an Institution</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/pictures_from_an_institut.php</link>
      <description>Randall Jarrell&apos;s campus comedy Pictures from an Institution.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[they longed for men to be discovered on the moon so they could show that they weren't prejudiced toward moon men I think that was the line William F. Buckley, Jr. quoted in an essay I read many years ago...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-11T08:58:15-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Michael Frayn is incentive?</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/michael_frayn_is_incentiv.php</link>
      <description>Michael Frayn, called cognitive and incentive on Amazon.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Trying to remember something about Michael Frayn I was looking at a comment on one of his books. When the reader described Frayn’s book as “cognitive and incentive” I decided I’d encountered the most amazing malapropism I’ll ever see or...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-03T18:11:19-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Christopher Hitchens on Evelyn Waugh</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/christopher_hitchens_on_e.php</link>
      <description> Christopher Hitchens on Evelyn Waugh&apos;s comedy and tragedy.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Waugh's mastery is most often shown by the light flick with which he could switch between the funny and the sinister. And the delicacy of this touch is shown by the breathtaking deftness with which he handled profane subjects. His...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-04-19T08:11:30-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Nietzsche: from Nazi to postmodern hero</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/nietzsche_from_nazi_to_p.php</link>
      <description>Nietzsche, Nietzschean  will to power, superman, ubermensche, joy, generosity.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Archiving yet another reply to a comment on my Live Journal. Nietzsche wasn't really given to system building. In his last days he did get carried away hoping to find a proof of 'eternal return.' Somewhere he (more or less)...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-04-14T16:18:29-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Kingsley Amis: The King&apos;s English</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/kingsley_amis_the_kings.php</link>
      <description>Kingsley Amis book The King&apos;s English prescriptive wit.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I read my first Kingsley Amis novel a few years back. Can’t remember the title. I’m terrible about things like titles. Back in the days of LPs I wouldn’t be able to remember the name of a song I liked...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
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      <title>God&apos;s Funeral</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/gods_funeral.php</link>
      <description>A.N. Wilson&apos;s God&apos;s Funeral and 19th Century Victorian atheism.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve always tended to give the 19th century a short shrift. I’ve read writers from the very beginning and end but ignored almost everyone in-between. A.N. Wilson’s God’s Funeral is a survey of the decline of faith among the Victorian...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-04-06T10:22:20-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>The Temple of the Mind</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/the_temple_of_the_mind.php</link>
      <description>The Temple of the Mind: Education and Literary Taste in Seventeenth-Century England by John R. Mulder.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Temple of the Mind: Education and Literary Taste in Seventeenth-Century England by John R. Mulder. A compact, nicely focused book. It was interesting to discover that the conceits in Metaphysical Poetry derived from the oral arguments that scholars made...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-01-21T17:26:53-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>How to buy used books online</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/how_to_buy_used_books_onl.php</link>
      <description></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Books Do Furnish A Room started selling used books on the web because I’d been buying them that way, mostly from Powells' website. Having been selling online for years it always surprises me that many people never think there may...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-01-01T18:11:28-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Rereading Evelyn Waugh</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/reading/rereading_evelyn_waugh.php</link>
      <description></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[My accomplishment of the day was taking out all the trash bags and washing the dishes. Arising after fifteen hours slumber Charles spent much of his day watching Comedy Central. Aside from Kids in the Hall I mostly hid. Having...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-08-29T19:01:03-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Ada Leverson, Malcolm Bradbury, Tom Sharpe</title>
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      <description></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week a customer asked me to suggest someone like Wodehouse. I made a few suggestions, Joe Keenan, Tom Sharpe (with a caveat that while very much like Wodehouse in plotting and farce replaced the faux-Edwardianism with scenes where a...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Reading</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2002-08-01T14:59:39-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Was about Robert Heinlein but somehow wound up with anti-Semitism</title>
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      <description></description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This started as a comment on a comment in another's journal that mentioned Robert Heinlein in passing. I suspect he would've been homophobic on some level, maybe a strong one. Thankfully I don't remember a homphobic line. He was certainly...]]></content:encoded>
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