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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events 12 'fire bombs' found inside EU interior ministers agreed that Buffalo, New York apartment nine member states from central house and eastern Europe are Buffalo, New York – The Buffalo sufficiently prepared to join EU's Fire Department is currently Schengen border-free zone on investigating how 12 "fire bombs" December 21. ended up inside an abandoned •A US Army UH-60 Black Hawk apartment house on 15 Allen helicopter crashes in Santa Lucia Street in Allentown, a di Piave, Italy, killing four people neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and injuring six. on Wednesday November 7.
Latest trial of the One Laptop •The US Senate confirms Michael In an exclusive report, Wikinews Per Child running in India; Mukasey as the Attorney General has learned from a witness who Uruguay orders 100,000 of the United States. wishes to remain anonymous, that machines •At least 29 miners are killed in a at approximately 12:00 p.m. EST gas leak in a colliery in China's (UTC-5) Heidi Garner called 9-1-1 Edmund White on writing, Guizhou province. to report that while walking her incest, life and Larry Kramer dog, it had been attacked by two •Pakistan Television quotes Wikinews talks other dogs when it sniffed under a President Pervez Musharraf as to the gate of the house. When police saying that Pakistan will hold Princeton arrived to investigate and retrieve elections before 15 February University the assaulting dogs, they entered 2008. professor about the house and found the 12 fire his literary •A 3 metre storm tide heads for bombs. It is not known what the existence, sexual prowess, the English Channel, causing devices were made of or what the Chinese politics and his feud with dozens of flood warnings by the explosive material was, but activist Larry Kramer. UK's Environment Agency. Prime unconfirmed reports say the main Minister Gordon Brown calls an explosive source was gasoline. Featured story emergency COBRA meeting for Friday, as the wave could The Hazmat team, the bomb New Zealand police blocked potentially affect thousands of squad and emergency services from laying terrorism charges properties and a threat to many were then dispatched to the scene, Following dozens of anti-terror lives. The tidal wave is thought to to dispose of the devices according raids across New Zealand a few be caused by gale-force winds off to witness reports. It is not known weeks ago, the Solicitor General Scotland and high tides. 200 are where they were taken. has advised the Police evacuated. Commisioner, Howard Broad, the Both dogs were immediately put to •At least seven construction New Zealand Police will not lay sleep, because they were fighting workers are killed and 15 others charges. over the body of the dead dog. It injured when a bridge under is not known who is the owner of construction collapses in Dubai, the dogs, as the house was not United Arab Emirates. rented, and no one was supposed •Georgia's opposition says it is to be living there. suspending anti-government protests in Tbilisi, after President
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Wikinews has also learned, while products — in the year to 31 investigating the property history, Since April 2004 members of the March 2007 Worldwide had a the Erie County's Department of BBC pension scheme have seen turnover of £810.4 million, Finance says that the building, their contributions into it increase generating profits of £111 million. which also has a storefront, is regularly, the BBC — like many allegedly owned by a Richard other employers — having reduced The BBC wants to use any money White who happens to live next its contribution (to 4.5% of raised to be put into international door at 17 Allen. White bought the payroll) over a ten year period commercial expansion and property from Edward G. Koch in when the stock market was content, most probably through 1996. The building was built in booming in the 1990s. Worldwide. 1910. The Guardian is seen as a reliable It had been intended to float It is not known what the devices source on BBC matters, having Resources back in 2005, but this were going to be used for and an reported the proposed sale of BBC was postponed for two years investigation is ongoing. It is not Television Centre back in January following strike action and ACAS known if there are any suspects. 2007, with the formal talks in June 2005 — the BBC announcement finally being made giving an undertaking that there Because of a severe amount of by BBC Director General Mark would be no preparations made to garbage and dog feces, the City of Thompson on October 18, 2007. sell the company until January Buffalo has condemned the 2007, and no sale allowed before building. Background to the sale July of this year. The current time- The Resources business-to- scale would see its disposal by the BBC Resources sale could be business unit was formed in 1998 end of the current financial year in unprofitable and operates television studios, March 2008. The sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC post-production and outside Resources Ltd., has hit a hurdle broadcast facilities for it's parent Queues start to form for UK after it emerged that the BBC share-holding company, the BBC. iPhone launch tomorrow could be left with a loss of up to It does not own any studios or Queues have started to form today £15 million on the deal. The cost premises, its assets being staff outside the London Apple store for of transferring the pensions of BBC and equipment. the launch of the iPhone. The Resources staff from the BBC phone launches tomorrow at 6.02 pension scheme to its new owners Advertised for sale on 16th August p.m. UTC exclusively onto the O2 could be up to £50 million in the Financial Times, The Times network amid controversy. The according to a Guardian and Broadcast and last year iPhone was launched five months Newspaper report. making profits of £5.2 million with ago in the United States and is set a revenue of £126 million, the to launch in the United Kingdom Managers from the division will disposal — led by Ernst & Young — and Germany tomorrow. meet with union representatives invited expressions of interest for from BECTU on Monday to discuss the whole division or for each of its Many people have braved the poor this and related sale issues. BECTU three operations separately. The weather and have set up camp in general secretary, Gerry Morrissey BBC has yet to release the names the street in a bid to be the first of is quoted as saying: "If the BBC of the short-listed companies. many thousands to buy the gets less than £50 million for BBC product on the first day of it's Resources then how can it fulfil its BBC Resources was the first of the release in the UK. Apple have duty of care to licence fee payers?" BBCs commercial business-to- already sold 1.4 million of the business divisions to be set up as units in the US, some of which It is believed that the BBC had a limited company and will be the have already been imported into hoped that a surplus in its pension last to be sold, the BBC having the UK un-officially. The cost of fund could be used to bridge the previously divested itself of BBC the device is set as £269 on a possible £50 million gap — but the Technology and BBC Broadcast — minimum £35 per month contract trustees of the fund have said BBC Worldwide, formerly BBC and will be sold at The Carphone "no". A BBC source said: "This is Enterprises, will remain in-house Warehouse, O2 and Apple Stores being discussed at the highest as it earns revenue from the across the UK. level". archive, media and licencing of
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The iPhone has a touch screen third, we basically had the match scoring when Pavlyuchenko fired display and can act as a phone, totally under control – apparently his penalty shotdown the middle text device, web browser, music so much under control that some goal after Stefan Kießling fouled player and email client all in one. of my players thought we could Dmitri Torbinskiy. Adler brought The launch of the product onto one relax. Then we went and conceded down Ukraine midfielder Maxym phone network only has caused a totally unnecessary equaliser Kalynychenko. Mozart scored on controversy internationally and after a throw-in. That goes down the issuing penalty. Freier cut the has led to many people using free as two points dropped, but I’m still lead in half but the Bayer and paid methods of unlocking the confident we can win the group.“ Leverkusen were unable to find an phone to be able to use it on other equaliser. networks even though it voids the Oliver Kahn: “We became very warranty. Apple replied to this careless in the last 20 minutes. We 2007/08 UEFA Cup: Nürnberg move by releasing software kept on attacking, but we forgot vs. Everton patches that, when installed, will that teams in Europe are capable Everton defeated Nürnberg 2-0 to prevent functionality of the phone. of scoring at any time. It was move top of Group A in the carelessness pure and simple, and 2007-08 UEFA Cup. 2007/08 UEFA Cup: Bayern a lack of total concentration. You Munich vs. Bolton Wanderers can’t afford that in Europe, you The first chance for the visiting Bayern Munich and Bolton have to concentrate right to the team came just over twenty Wanderers drew 2-2 today. end.“ seconds into the match when Mikel Arteta saw his shot saved by Bolton Wanderers opened the Christian Lell: “Overall, we lacked Nürnberg goalkeeper Jaromír scoring after only 8 minutes when a cutting edge today. We had Blažek, before Tim Cahill's Ricardo Gardner scored on a plenty of chances before and after followup shot was tipped onto the deflected shot. After taking 15 the break, but we simply didn’t goalposts. Nürnberg had chances minutes to settle in, Bayern make the most of them. Then we from Peer Kluge and Dominik Munich started to attack more went to sleep for a moment. But Reinhardt, but Kluge's attempt frequently and it paid dividends we’ve got to turn our attention to went just wide of the posts while after 30 minutes when Lukas the future, we’re in action again Tim Howard saved Reinhardt's Podolski equalized. Early in the the day after next. We need to shot. 2nd half Bayern Munich took the come away with something from lead when Podolski got his 2nd Stuttgart.“ Everton opened the scoring late in goal of the game. However, with 8 the match when Berti Gláuber minutes left, Bolton equalized Gary Megson (Bolton): “We were brought down Victor Anichebe, which earned Bolton's 2nd point in missing twelve players tonight, but giving the visitors a penalty which the group stage while Bayern lead we still showed Bayern very little Arteta converted. Five minutes Group F with 4 points. If Bayern respect. But I have to say they’ve later Anichebe scored to extend Munich wins their next UEFA Cup got world-class players all over the Everton's lead. match, they are all but assured field, and they’re a really strong their place in the next round. side. We didn’t have as many In the other Group A match of the chances as our opponents, but we evening, Zenit Saint Petersburg Post-match Quotes had a couple of good ones, and defeated Larissa 3-2. Everton lead Ottmar Hitzfeld: “The crowd’s our application at the end was Group A with two wins from two basically been treated to a good terrific. I especially want to single matches and look likely to qualify and exciting game with plenty of out our captain Kevin Nolan, he for the knockout stage. Saint chances from our team. We were kept on driving us forward.“ Petersburg are second with four unlucky to go a goal behind so points while Dutch side AZ early, that was exactly what Bolton 2007/08 UEFA Cup: Spartak Alkmaar have one point with a wanted, because it let them sit Moscow vs. Bayer Leverkusen game in hand. Nürnberg, defeated back and defend. But we Spartak Moscow defeated Bayer in their only match so far, are recovered well and piled on the Leverkusen 2-1 in UEFA Cup action fourth in the group and Larissa are pressure, thanks to the today. bottom with two defeats from two outstanding Ribery. After we went matches. 2-1 up we seemed poised to get a Spartak Moscow opened the
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Trailer released for Lordi when they reached Auvinen he A 1.5m tidal surge is expected horror movie was already unconscious, and no tonight in the United Kingdom and A short trailer for the movie Dark rounds were fired by the police. could lead to flooding on the Kent Floors, a horror starring Finnish coast. The surge is expected to theatrical hard rock band Lordi, Auvinen had no previous criminal cause "severe" flooding and the has been released. convictions, and had received his Thames Barrier was closed at 2000 gun license several weeks UTC. The Environment Agency The film, set in a hospital, follows previously. He purchased his gun have said that there is "extreme a group of people left trapped by a on October 19. danger to life and property" and broken lift as they are attacked by have evacuated 200 people on the monsters, and focuses heavily on In a text describing himself on the coast. 1,300 hundred properties one particular patient, a little video sharing site YouTube, where are thought to be in the affected autistic girl. he had posted a total of 89 videos, area. including some showing him firing Dark Floors, acted in English by a his gun and others directly refering The Environment agency also said largely Finnish cast, cost €4.2 to the killing, he said that he was that they would have extra staff million (approximately US$6 "a cynical existentialist, anti- out to inform the public of the million) to make. It will make its human humanist, anti-social risks but are also asking people to full premiere in Finland on social-Darwinist, realistic idealist check that others are aware of the February 8, 2008, although and god-like atheist." potential risks, especially to the advance screenings will begin this elderly. year. "I am prepared to fight and die for my cause," he continued. "I, as a The surge has been caused by the Lordi recently attended the Cannes natural selector, will eliminate all high wind speeds of over 80 miles Film Festival to promote the who I see unfit, disgraces of per hour, high tides and low movie, where the band's lead human race and failures of natural pressure over the North Sea. vocalist and frontman described it selection." There are currently 42 flood as a "traditional modern horror" warnings of various degrees, 8 of and promised "horrific scenes." Severe weather warnings which are rated severe. issued in UK Perpetrator of Finnish school The U.K. Met Office has issued a 2007 Baseball World Cup Day shooting dies in hospital severe weather warning as very 2: 4 teams score lots of runs Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the gunman high winds are expected in Britain Batters overpower pitchers on this who killed eight people in the and the North Sea. Wind gusts the second day of 2007 BWC. Jokela school shooting in Finland could be over hurricane force, Italy, Chinese Taipei, Japan, and yesterday, has died in hospital gusting up to 80 miles per hour. Canada easily won by ending early from a self-inflicted gunshot the games against their opponents wound to the head. North Sea oil platforms are being as their aggressive hitting made it evacuated in the wake of the look like batting practice. "He died at 22h14 of a one-bullet storm. BP is expecting to shut injury in the head," said down the production on its North South Korea vs Venezuela traumatology physician Eero Sea oil platforms on Thursday. At With both pitchers shutting down Hirvensalo, chief of the Helsinki the same time, Conoco Inc. has their opponents' batting, it quickly University Hospital. announced, that they will evacuate became a pitching duel. Through around 500 staff oil from platforms the 6th inning, a 0-0 double Auvinen, 18, murdered his at the Ekofisk oil field. shutout was still holding. But at headmistress, school nurse and six the top of 7th inning, with Kim Joo students, as well as wounding one The METAR reports from Ekofisk Chan's solo HR and Lee Seung other victim, before turning his Oil Platform are indicating Hwa's 2 runs HR to break the tie. gun on himself. continuously intensiying winds. At With further effective batting, 11:50 UTC on Thursday, wind Korea went on to beat Venezuela When police special units arrived gusts of 57 knots were reported with a final score of 4-0. on-scene and entered the school they were initially shot at, but Tidal surge expected in UK USA vs Panama
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Last night, assisted by Mexico's Canada vs Cuba responsibility for Macedonia errors and some key hits, USA clashes defeated Mexico with 3-0. Today, Konami Cup Asia Series 2007 A group, calling itself the Political- the Americans faced Panama, who Day 1: Uni-Lions reverses Military Council of the Kosovo beat Spain, 5-0, in yesterday's China, SK Wyverns ends Liberation Army (UCK) says it was opening match. Starting pitcher, Japan's winning streak behind yesterday's armed clash Matt Wright, and relief pitchers, Konami Cup Asia Series 2007 with Macedonian police forces Chris Perez and Jeff Stevens, battled in Tokyo Dome today, with which left at least six dead. effectively closed down Panama's 2007 BWC in Taiwan and offense. USA scored 4 runs in the upcoming 2007 Asian Baseball In a statement, the organization first two innings and went on to a Championship chained on the claims that its members, formerly comfortable victory at 7-0. qualification of 2008 Summer of the “Albanian Territorial Olympics, this series may varied Liberation Army“, had been "forced Netherlands vs Australia Asian's teams recently. to assemble a regular military unit Australia was defeated in extra in order to protect the endangered innings by Cuba's 2 HRs, Uni-President Lions (Taiwan) vs Albanian people, and every inch of yesterday, even though the China Stars (China) Albanian territory.“ Aussies had the lead in the 9th. An alternative Cross-Strait battle However, the Netherlands should became the routine Opening Match This Thursday, the situation in the not be overlooked. Evenly in the Konami Cup. For the Uni Tetovo region village, the scene of matched, it became a pitching Lions, they have more actual yesterday's battle, is calm. game like Korea vs Venezuela did strength than La New Bears of last earlier. By the 6th inning, the year, and they try to win back title Nobel Prize winner Arthur teams were tied 2-2. The game to Taiwan. In the China's way, due Kornberg dies at age 89 was decided in the 9th inning. The to the upcoming of 2008 Olympics, Stanford biochemist Arthur Netherlands scored first in the top their players want to show their Kornberg, winner of the 1959 half, but in the bottom of the strength at this game. Nobel Prize in Physiology or inning, the Dutch committed Medicine, died on October 26, fielding errors. Australian player Even though the starting pitcher 2007 of respiratory failure. He was Trent Oeltjen secured the game, Nelson Figueroa couldn't press 89. He is survived by his third 4-3, for the Aussies by driving in China's batting with 1-4 behind wife, Carolyn Frey Dixon. the game-winning run. before the 6th inning, with a Grand Slam HR by Chen Lien-hung Kornberg is best known for his Other results and a back-to-back HR by Yang discovery (with Severo Ochoa) of Group A Sen, Uni Lions finally reversed "the mechanisms in the biological Spain 1-11A Italy China Stars with 9-5 by 3 HRs. synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid Mexico 3-15A Japan (DNA)", including the isolation of Chinese Taipei 16A-1 South Africa SK Wyverns (South Korea) vs DNA polymerase I, which led to his Chunichi Dragons (Japan) Nobel prize. He was the first Group B Evidentially, Dragons didn't take scientist to make DNA in a test Cuba 7-3 Germany any advantages at their home. tube. He also studied pathways for Canada 18A-0 Thailand Instead of SK, they scored 5 RBIs synthesis of ATP and nucleotides, at 6th and 7th innings and finally and he was the first to synthesize Tomorrow's fixtures won Dragons with 6-3 even though PRPP. In his later years, Kornberg Group A Yung Chun Cho was hit by Kazuki studied inorganic polyphosphates. United States vs Italy Inoue's 2 RBIs HR at the bottom of South Africa vs Spain 7th inning. Kornberg's son, Stanford structural Mexico vs Panama biologist Roger D. Kornberg, won Japan vs Chinese Taipei Tomorrow's fixtures the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry China Stars vs SK Wyverns for work on the molecular basis of Group B Uni-President Lions vs Chunichi eukaryotic transcription. Thailand vs South Korea Dragons Venezuela vs Australia List of stupidest laws in Britain Germany vs Netherlands Albanian group claims revealed
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The results of a survey by the UK Liverpool City Council commenting Mr Collins does state though that TV station UKTV Gold has revealed on the third item stated "It's he is not criticising the police the 10 most stupid laws, as something that has been heard of based on his decision. "Nothing determined by the 4,000 before and does crop up from time could be further from the truth. participants. It is unclear as to to time, but it is absurd... It is a They have acted entirely how many of the laws are true, or myth and totally made up. It has appropriate in referring the still in effect but at least one has no basis in fact". evidence to me." been determined as being a myth. The ten laws are listed below. New Zealand police blocked Some of the evidence will be made 1. It is illegal to die in the from laying terrorism charges public in future firearm charges, Houses of Parliament. 27% Following dozens of raids across but some will be withheld from the 2. It is an act of treason to New Zealand a few weeks ago, the public Mr Collins regrettably said. place a postage stamp Solicitor General has advised the bearing the British monarch Police Commissioner, Howard However, Mr Broad admitted that upside-down. 7% Broad, the New Zealand Police no other laws had been breached, 3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for may not lay charges against those and charges could not have been a woman to be topless arrested under the Terrorism laid under the Crimes Act. except as a clerk in a Suppression Act 2002. tropical fish store. 6% Currently, Parliament is proposing 4. Mince pies cannot be eaten On October 15, when the raids amendments to the Terrorism on Christmas Day. 5% occurred, 17 people were arrested Suppression Act. Due to the use of 5. In Scotland, if someone and twelve of those were referred the Act in the police raids, there knocks on your door and from the police to the Solicitor are currently widespread protests. requires the use of your General, David Collins QC, to lay Parliament was briefly locked down toilet, you must let them charges under the Terrorism on Thursday when a small enter. 4% Suppression Act. His consent was delegation of protesters came 6. A pregnant woman can needed to lay charges relating to closer than is customarily legally relieve herself the act. Those arrested were permitted. anywhere she wants, charged with breaching the including in a policeman's Firearms Act, however. 2007 Baseball World Cup Day helmet. 4% 1: Taichung starts prior to 7. The head of any dead whale Mr Collins came to his decision due Taipei found on the British coast to insufficient evidence that there The opening ceremonies for the automatically becomes the was planning or preparation of a 2007 Baseball World Cup (2007 property of the king, and terrorist act of any kind by those BWC) were held Tuesday. the tail of the queen. 3.5% activist groups raided, and that Torrential rain, however, made 8. It is illegal to avoid telling the Terrorism Suppression Act is Panama vs Spain the opening the tax man anything you "complex and incoherent". He said match of the 2007 BWC in do not want him to know, that it would be difficult to Taichung Intercontinental Baseball but legal not to tell him currently apply the Act to a Stadium. The original opening information you do not mind domestic terrorist. "The key match of Chinese Taipei vs Italy him knowing. 3% reason I am not prepared to was postponed until next week 9. It is illegal to enter the authorise prosecutions under the and will be played at Tianmu Houses of Parliament in a act is there is insufficient evidence Baseball Stadium. suit of armour. 3% to establish to the very high 10.In the city of York it is legal standard required that a group "Recently, we got into a sticky to murder a Scotsman was preparing a terrorist act." situation while constructing a within the ancient city walls, dome due to some protests by but only if he is carrying a Those raided included various non-governmental people, but bow and arrow. 2% Māori and environmental activists we'll try to overcome these who had been alleged to have difficulties in order to present At least some of the items on the undertaken training in terrorist high-level sports to the list have been confirmed as urban camps. international market." Chin-chi legends. A spokesman for Wu, the Director of the Taipei City
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Bureau of Education, remarked at York, London and Paris, Otherwise, if it’s like this, you try Tuesday's opening ceremony. befriending artistic luminaries such to think it out. as Salman Rushdie and Sir Ian Spain vs Panama McKellen while writing about a DS: When you notice you are very The opening match of the 2007 family where he was jealous his flexible in your thought and BWC was played in Taichung after sister was having sex with his change notions easily, does it have a bad weather Wednesday at father as he fought off his broader implications for you? Tianmu, Taipei City. The Spanish mother's amorous pursuit. EW: Sure, I think I am often team became contenders after working out things that I later will winning 3rd place at the 2007 The fact is, Edmund White exists. write. To the degree that I write in European Baseball Tournament. His life exists. To the casual an essayistic way, or even in my Several of their players hail from reader, they may find it novels, I work up opinions I try Venezuela. disquieting that someone like his out and use later. father existed in 1950's America With a single and one RBI by Angel and that White's work is the DS: One interview I did was with a Chavez, and the first HR of 2007 progeny of his intimate effort to young novelist named John Reed— BWC yielding 3 RBIs by Joel Vega, understand his own experience. EW: I know him. Cute boy. the Panamanian team transformed this match from one of pitching to David Shankbone understood that DS: Yes, married, kids. But he batting. In the end, Panama beat an interview with Edmund White, feels a problem with creating a Spain 5-0. Even though Spain lost who is professor of creative writing new generation of readers today is this match, their strengths were at Princeton University, who wrote that the literary canon does not witnessed by lots of spectators. the seminal biography of Jean have many modern works at the Genet, and who no longer can grade school and high school level, Australia vs Cuba keep track of how many sex and young readers feel This match was delayed a few partners he has encountered, disconnected from reading. hours due to uncertain weather in meant nothing would be off limits. EW: I think he’s wrong; I don’t Taipei. The two teams also played Nothing was. Late in the interview know where he is living. If you go eachother in the finals of the 2004 they were joined by his partner to high schools now—because I Summer Olympics. Today, the two Michael Caroll, who discussed teach 18, 19, 20 year olds—they teams battled in an intense White's enduring feud with don’t know the classics. All they pitching duel. influential writer and activist Larry know is The Color Purple and stuff Kramer. like that. They all know The Color At the bottom of 9th inning, Purple but they don’t know The Frederich Cepeda hit a solo HR and On literature Fairy-Queen. They have never pushed this game into extra David Shankbone: What questions read Milton, but they have read innings. Cuba's pitcher Pedro Lazo are you tired of answering? Augusten Burroughs or David Iglesias saved his team at the top Edmund White: Is there a gay Sedaris. So, he’s wrong. of 10th inning when the Aussies sensibility? People ask it all the [Chuckles] looked posed to score. Cuba beat time…the best answer to that I Australia 3-2. Osmanis Urrutia's ever saw was somebody said, DS: But what’s taught is not HR at the bottom of 10th inning “There is no gay sensibility and it modern— was the winning run. has had an enormous impact on EW: No, it is! society.” Otherwise, I’m pretty Edmund White on writing, easy. I try to rethink the question DS: Augusten Burroughs is incest, life and Larry Kramer each time. taught? What you are about to read is an EW: Absolutely! Absolutely! American life as lived by renowned DS: Have you noticed your author Edmund White. His life has answers change much? DS: That would seem like racy been a crossroads, the fulcrum of EW: Oh, yeah. I’m a philosophical material for grade school or high high-brow Classicism and low- spirit, so that means you think school. brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is through everything each time, EW: I don’t mean in Alabama; in not for the faint. He has been the unless you’re doing ten interviews America the curriculum is toast of the literary elite in New a day and your own book tour. determined by each community,
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, November 10, 2007 Wikinews Page 8 which is unlike every other country them is not true of England journalists , they live in London, in the western world. So, in because in fact the major winners and they all know each other. It’s Tuscaloosa they are not going to of the Booker Prize over the last a very small world, which is good teach something racy, but in thirty years are people who would and bad. One of the good things is Darien, Connecticut they are. not have been allowed in a private that if somebody is really talented men’s club in England fifty years like Hollinghurst and has On work as a gay writer ago. accumulated a bastion of power DS: Does it bother you to be like the TLS, he’ll have enormous considered a gay writer? DS: Do you see a generation that impact, and everybody knows it. EW: Well there is a question I can assume the mantle for the Whereas here somebody like David have asked many many times. I Violet Quill or is there not a Leavitt is teaching in Gainesville, think it would be unrealistic to say necessity for it? Florida. That’s pretty far off the I’m not a gay writer. I emerged EW: There’s not a necessity for it beaten path even though he’s a with a gay literary movement—the now, but there was then. It’s wonderful writer. His last book, Violet Quill—which was a group of always been hard to get gay books The Indian Clerk, was reviewed on gay writers who all started published, and it’s as hard as ever. the front page of The New York publishing in 1978, and I was It’s very hard to get gay books Times book review very glowingly. labeled from the very beginning a published. Nevertheless, it doesn’t sell and gay writer. nobody cares. It’s very hard. DS: Why? DS: And you embrace that? EW: The market is very small. DS: You think that’s because of a EW: Embrace is another thing, but Only 3% of all people are gay and lack of a community of writers? it would be unrealistic to deny it or if you take a diminishing dumbed- EW: I think there’s a number of act like it is some terrible offense, down reading public to begin with, things. One of the things that is because if I am known at all it is and say you are only aiming for important for gay writers, gay because of the idea of gay 3% of that market, that’s awfully publishers and gay academics is to literature. Sometimes you wish small. So gay novels if they are try and develop a market. You can you could have a wider readership, successful sell 5,000 copies. see that with something like Harry but every writer wishes that. More Potter where everybody thought women and straight men, but we DS: What is a gay novel? the children’s market had all wish we had a wider EW: One that is marketed as gay. completely vanished and now it’s readership. In America, especially, Usually a picture of a cute boy on back in a huge way because of everything is niche marketing and the cover. that one book. I have a friend, identity politics. That’s not true in Claire Robson who is a lesbian England, so much, and it’s DS: Would Hollinghurst’s writer that lives in Vancouver. certainly not true in France. Swimming Pool Library be one? Canada, being a semi-welfare EW: Well, he’s a cross-over writer. state has a lot of money for public DS: In England you have kids He’s a little different because he things. She’s trying to develop reading Afro-Caribbean literature did win the Booker Prize with The older lesbian audiences, younger because they don’t have a sense Line of Beauty, and he was the gay male audiences. She’s that it’s a “black thing”? editor of The Times Literary organizing reading groups, study EW: Yes, that’s right. For instance, Supplement, which is the most groups, autobiography writing most of the well known writers in prestigious reviewing organism in groups. All of this stuff that is paid England under 50 are former the English-speaking world. He has for by the government. colonial people, whether it’s a dark brown voice and he went to Ishiguro—he’s Japanese and that Oxford and he knows everybody. DS: Earlier you were saying what wasn’t part of the empire, but still He’s admired by everybody. makes a book a certain genre is a —or David Hogue Davies. Carl London is such a different place marketing function. Phillips, who is a black man from because in America writers teach EW: Yes, but I think that what she the islands who lives now in New in different universities and they is doing is trying to create readers York but is one of England’s most are scattered all across this huge who will then buy gay…I’m not important writers. Also Salman country and they sometimes know saying all gay and lesbian books Rushdie. In other words, the way each other, but not usually. are cynically marketed. There were we categorize people and dismiss Whereas in England they are all a lot of books when I was young
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, November 10, 2007 Wikinews Page 9 that weren’t marketed as gay EW: No, I’m having sex more EW: I have dominated, it’s just not books; books by Proust, Thomas often than once week. It’s hard to as pleasurable. When I was Mann and so on. Andre Gilde. They defend the position logically, I just younger I had slaves, even for a had gay themes but the “gay mean to me it’s important. whole year at a time. novel” didn’t exist then. The problem is we have an awfully lot DS: Is that the main criterion for a DS: You had a slave relationship. of good gay writers and very few partner? EW: Yes, for a year. good gay readers. I don’t know EW: No. I’ve lived with Michael for why that is, but it’s true. twelve years and I don’t think that DS: What was that like? has ever been the key issue EW: One day we were on acid DS: Who are some good gay between us. He’s a writer, down in Key West and I realized I writers? compatible and he’s one of the didn’t even like him, so I broke up EW: Vestal McIntyre, Patrick Ryan most interesting people I know. with him. I thought it was okay to are just two. He’s always unpredictable. be doing it if I actually like or love him, but if I really have contempt On sex DS: You have an open for him, that’s no good. It has to DS: You said in an interview that relationship? be an expression of love. the smartest people are the best EW: Yes. sex— DS: What psychological issues EW: [Laughs] DS: Do you think that’s a come out in a relationship like necessity in order to have a that? DS: —what is sex to you? successful relationship? EW: Unrequited feelings for love EW: The most important thing in EW: I wouldn’t preach for anybody from your father, often times. the world. I had a sex partner who else; I mean, everybody’s Longings for passivity. A lot of I thought was really great sex but different. But for me, yes. people have that. one day he said to me, “I really DS: Where do you tend to find DS: To give up the feeling they enjoy playing basketball more than your sexual partners? always have to be in control in having sex,” and I was so EW: On-line, now. their waking lives? offended. I thought that was like Silverdaddies.com; daddyhunt. EW: I have a good friend who is a somebody saying, “I’d rather go That’s where you go if you’re European novelist who was willing shopping than go to church.” It older. Or Manhunt and gay.com. to literally hand over all of his seemed to be so trivializing of this Or slavesformaster. Those are all belongings to this master, just sacred thing of sex that it was sites where I’ve met people. signed over everything he owned hard to see him again after that. to live in a cage the rest of his life. So what is it for me? Something DS: Are you a slave or a master? It turned out to be a fraud to very transcendent and I turn my EW: A slave, but I’m not much of fleece him of his money. life upside down to have it as one. frequently as possible. No, it’s not DS: That must have been frequency, it’s quality that’s DS: Why are you a bad slave? disappointing for him. important. EW: I’m not into pain and it has to EW: It’s a good thing he strike me just right or it starts to discovered that in time, didn’t lose DS: How can something repeated seem ridiculous. his money and didn’t live in a cage so often still be considered sacred? the rest of his life, because he’s EW: What about the mass? DS: At what point does it start to actually a very interesting person seem ridiculous? with a very full life. DS: Do you only have sex once a EW: Too much leather, bad week? grammar on the part of the DS: What psychological issues did EW: They have mass every day. master! [Laughs] you work through in your slave- master relationships? DS: People don’t go to mass every DS: [Laughs] EW: Different ones. If it’s not an day, typically. EW: Like, “Lay down” instead of on-going thing then you would get EW: They can. “Lie down.” tired of it and drop it all together. It’s not a very major part of my DS: They could. DS: Are you always submissive? life.
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fourteen and sixteen—it is never a DS: Where do you think that DS: Did it used to be more so? very big deal. Whereas if a brother attraction came from? EW: Yes. But it was also a fresher and sister have sex and are both EW: I don’t know; I think it’s very scene back then. Now it feels like a teenagers, it is often traumatic, hard to explain attraction. If I’m very tired scene and I hate people especially for the girl, and it will attracted to you right now, why? I in leather, I think that’s so stupid. show up in her psychoanalysis don’t know why. later, and problems with her DS: Like they are wearing marriage, with frigidity and so on. DS: But that’s something people Halloween costumes? If it’s her father she is sleeping could perhaps explain more readily EW: Yeah. with, it becomes a very big than attraction to one's father. problem for her psychological EW: I don’t know; I wasn’t really DS: As if the fashion never adjustment. raised by my father. I lived apart changes? It’s always the same from him and I would spend every chaps, the same harness… DS: Is that because there is an summer with him, but not see him EW: Yeah…yeah, that’s right. One intrinsic problem with it, or much during the year. My parents of the interesting things about because of societal reactions to it? were divorced from my age of Robert Mapplethorpe—who was a EW: I think that it probably comes seven on. I think the incest taboo friend of mine and I have quite a to the same thing because in every sets in and turns somebody off few pictures here by him, including society it’s a problem. So whether sexually with somebody they know two of me—he had leathers made it’s genetic or societal, I don’t very well and lives with. I think for him in Amsterdam with red and know. But it’s universal. with my father he was somebody blue piping, fitting in an interesting Anthropologists try to speculate who every eye in the family was way with different kinds of leather. why that would be. Some people focused on and he was a sort of a A patchwork effect without making say that it has to do with the tyrant and nice-looking, the source it look silly. He was very elegant. divisions of authority and power; of all power, money, happiness, They were attractive and sexy. for instance, if a daughter is and he was implacable and sleeping with her father then her difficult. He was always spoken of On incest in his family mother has no authority over her in sexual terms, in the sense he DS: In an interview you said that because the daughter has in a left our mother for a much you are known for the incestuous sense replaced the mother younger woman who was very feelings that were in your family— because she’s the ideal partner— sexy but had nothing else going EW: [Laughs] she’s younger, prettier, whatever. for her. He was a famous It screws up the whole family womanizer. And he slept with my DS: —what advice would you give system. It’s a very interesting sister! to couples pursuing an incestuous subject. But I think I’m right: two relationship? brothers, no big deal; two sisters, DS: What you describe is power; EW: You mean like a father and no big deal. Brother-sister are you still attracted to power? daughter who want to have a love becomes a problem, or mother- EW: No. I mean, my idea of affair? son it becomes a huge problem. power, but not everybody’s idea of power. In other words, I wouldn’t DS: Or a brother and sister. DS: So you’d advise an incestuous want to go to bed with Bush… EW: God, move to a more tolerant couple not to pursue it? country, first of all. EW: Oh, I don’t give advice! DS: Would you let him blow you? [Laughs] EW: No. DS: Do you think there is a problem with it? DS: You had mentioned particular DS: Why not? EW: I think incest becomes more issues about a father may arise in EW: I find him repulsive. I difficult if it’s intergenerational a slave-master relationship. You wouldn’t even let a Republican than if it’s in the same generation. were sexually attracted to your blow me. That does cut down on a And it becomes more difficult if it father, so do you think you worked number of people I guess— crosses the sex barrier. For through your own issues with him? instance, two brothers who have DS: What did your father’s sex with each other when they are EW: Yes. incestuous relationship with your growing up, for instance—they’re sister do to you?
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EW: I was envious of my sister. I DS: I interviewed an eminent Clinton, but very reluctantly. She’s wished I had that kind of access to psychoanalyst named Joseph more experienced and has had a him. Merlino and he said it’s a mixture lot of time to think about of things—nature, nurture, both. government and how to deal with DS: Did you try? EW: You don’t try to explain Congress. She’s learned from her EW: Yeah. heterosexuality and yet it’s own mistakes, and from her extremely difficult to explain. husband's mistakes, too. I think DS: And he spurned you? he learned from his mistakes. The EW: No, it was so subtle he DS: How so? way they had such a disaster with probably didn’t even know I was EW: If you get beyond the simple their health proposals, or their gay longing for him because, I mean, biological fact that we want men to proposals for the army, I think we’re talking about the 1950’s in fuck women so we’ll have babies, they learned from that and she Cincinnati, Ohio, or Texas. He that doesn’t explain the has benefited from all that. She didn’t know I was gay until later psychological dynamics of how was a full partner. and he would tell me he had just men come to regard women as so fired a man because he thought he attractive. I think the way DS: Would we benefit from having might be gay, or at least he wasn’t advertising works in our media and Bill Clinton back in the White married and he wore a ring. movies I think it would be make House? more sense if all men are EW: He’s charismatic and a DS: How would you respond? heterosexual and all women are wonderful mind. Since he’s been EW: You couldn’t say anything. lesbians, because women are held out of office he’s been involved in up as being so attractive and so a lot of public welfare interests, DS: Did he ever know? much the focus of sexual desire, whether it be international poverty EW: About me? Yes. Fairly early that I think that would be more or AIDS. The Tsunami. I would say on, when I was about fifteen. logical. Especially when I was he’s broadened his interests since DS: What was his reaction? growing up. You never saw a he was in office. EW: He was horrified, because he naked man except Indians in thought it was my mother’s bad cowboy and Indian movies. You DS: Nicolas Sarkozy: fascist or influence because I had led an never saw a bare-chested man. liberator? overly sophisticated life with her. EW: Neither, but he’s better than He thought I should lead a simpler DS: The courting rituals are similar a lot of people thought he would life and put in hours and hours of between gays and straights. be. He’s appointed a lot of yard work and that would make EW: The courting rituals are very Socialists and even Communists to me straight. different, because heterosexual his government. I think people feel men spend a lot of time courting he is not part of the Grandes DS: Your mother was attracted to women before they get them; Écoles system, even though I think you, right? whereas gay men get them he went to one, but he doesn’t EW: Or anybody that was around, instantly if they are going to get seem quite as much a part of the I think? them at all. The most romantic establishment. moment with gay men—this is DS: [Laughs] The old doorknob something Michel Foucault said, DS: So you have no issue with adage? [Laughs] it’s not an original thought—he him? EW: [Laughs] Yeah. [Laughs] said the most romantic moment EW: No, not at all. Maybe I will, for a heterosexual man is the and we all thought we would, but DS: Do you think that played a build-up to sex, and for gay men he’s turned out to be better than role in your being gay? the most romantic moment is that idiot Ségolène Royal with her EW: A classical Freudian when you put your trick in a cab frozen smile. explanation would be suffocating and you go back home alone mother and absent father makes thinking about it all. [Laughs] DS: How has the Iraq War affected somebody gay. I actually had both you?’ of those elements, but I don’t On American politics EW: It’s very depressing. Michael think that’s a universal formula for DS: Who are you supporting for is more conservative than I am creating homosexuals. President? and he’ll get mad at me— EW: Nobody. I guess I’ll vote for Michael: But it is depressing. It’s
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, November 10, 2007 Wikinews Page 12 very depressing. enough time to tease out what you have Tibet. You have problems EW: It’s depressing—this is where they are really trying to say, what in the south with the north. Hong he’ll get mad at me—I think it is valuable, or what I can learn Kong. You don’t think that there makes it depressing to be an from them even though I will be a domino effect that when American. Especially when you’re completely disagree with what one goes, the others will go? abroad, because most Europeans they are saying. EW: I don’t think so. You know we know are very sophisticated in why? China has been one country. that they can separate an DS: You have to choose whether Obviously Tibet is a different individual from his country’s to blow up China or India, and if problem. Manchuria is a different politics better than most you do not choose then they both problem. Mongolia is a different Americans can. Remember go. They are roughly equal in problem. But if you forget all those everybody talking about Freedom population according to their last problems, and you just talk about Fries. censuses; which do you choose? the central provinces—which are Michael: It’s all ridiculous. I don’t EW: I think I would blow up China. immense—that’s always been one get embarrassed being an I majored in Chinese in college and country for almost 4,000 years American, but I definitely avoid I was a great admirer of traditional with an emperor ruling it. Starting going places where Americans China, but I don’t really like with the Han Dynasty, which is aren’t popular. modern China very much and I’ve about the time of Christ, with an EW: But aside from all that, just never had a desire to go there. I elaborate civil service system. living here year after year when feel like whatever wisdom or That’s what Confucius was about. you have a government that you culture or civilization they had hate, and that is systematically they pretty much destroyed DS: So the age of the end of the destroying the fabric of our through the Cultural Revolution, empire won’t touch China? It won’t society, and just taking apart paradoxically, in the Seventies. I be a Soviet Union? everything they can think of. think that will end up being the EW: If you look at Russia and all “Health care for children? Veto worst thing that happened in the those places, like Georgia and that. School system? Let’s destroy Twentieth Century, worse than the Uzbekistan, those are all different that.” Whatever you can think of. Holocaust. It killed more people little countries and it was the “Prisoners rights? Let’s create and it destroyed the fabric of their Soviet Union that dragged them all Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.” society more than anything. India together and when the Soviet Everything! I just sent a check never really had anything Union croaked they all fell apart. I today to the ACLU. It’s really the comparable. They had the British, think China traditionally was time to be doing that. they had the Raj, and that was unified. pretty damn bad, I guess, but it DS: Nadine Strossen is such a was an ambiguous thing. It On his intimate relationships believer. I guess you need to be a preserved a lot of things and it DS: What do you regard as the believer to be President of the destroyed others, but it lowest depth of misery? ACLU. What trait do you deplore in consolidated power in India. It had EW: I think I felt it about three yourself? been so many different little years ago. I was dropped by a guy EW: It sounds ironic because I kingdoms. I was really in love with, and it have been publishing recent years took me back to my late twenties a book every year, but I actually DS: So is China. when that had last happened. I feel I am lazy. I’m very unfocused, EW: Yeah, that’s right, although didn’t even think I was capable of so I guess I get things done the Chinese empire is very old. that kind of suffering anymore, but because I’m broke all the time, so There is nothing comparable in I just cried every day for a month I have to do it for money. Another India. and all the time. I went to a shrink trait I don’t like about myself is an then, and he said, “I can’t even “I’m right and your wrong” quality. DS: It’s more cohesive now, but work with you, you’re so There’s a slight dictatorial side, China, once the Communist Party depressed.” probably because I’m a teacher loses its grip on power, it’s going and I’m given that authority based to fall apart. DS: Why did he drop you? upon my position. I can run EW: I don’t think so. Maybe Tibet. EW: He found a new lover and he roughshod over other people’s discovered he wasn’t really a top, opinions and not really take DS: You have Muslim provinces, but a bottom.
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DS: You’ve never known of anyone faster and faster down. I thought if DS: How does having a who has said, “Oh, now I have a I took meds I would have more relationship like that fit in yours different strain and none of the energy, and I did. I used to take and Michael’s? drugs are working.” two naps a day. EW: Nobody seems to understand EW: No. I think that’s something it very well, and I’m not sure doctors told people because they On Edmund White we’ve even articulated it. Michael were trying to scare the ones who DS: How would you like to die if has a full time boyfriend who is a are already positive and weren’t you could choose your own death? German who is quite a bit younger responsible towards their partners. EW: A heart attack in my sleep. than he is. He’s a historian, he’s a They were trying to give them a That’s the most beautiful death. PhD student in history. And I have personal reason for practicing safe You’re not conscious of it, the a fulltime boyfriend who is a PhD sex. “Oh, your own health will pain, and you’re gone in a second. student at Harvard in philosophy. deteriorate more if you don’t It’s no fuss for anybody else, We both like each other’s watch out.” I think that’s bullshit. I either. boyfriends. don’t always tell my partners I’m positive, but I always practice safe DS: What about dying consciously DS: Do you think not articulating it sex with somebody I don’t’ know makes you uncomfortable? is what makes it work? and I just assume that’s enough. EW: Nothing, except that usually if EW: Yes. We’re very very If they ask, I always say the truth. you’re conscious you have a long, affectionate and we’re both lingering disease. bohemian. Neither of us ever had DS: What difficulties have you an ideal of getting married and encountered physically from being DS: You could be hit by a train. having a white picket fence, HIV positive? Has it been a difficult EW: That’s fine, but I that would adopting a Korean girl or being row to hoe? be more painful than dying of a respectable, or anything like that. EW: No. I found out I was positive heart attack. Maybe not, that When we first met we both in 1985, and I was probably might be good. A lot of times when realized we are each sluts, so we positive already for five or six I’m in a storm in a plane, I think I cheerfully acknowledged that and years at that point because I was wouldn’t mind if it goes down. went our way. We’re in it for the very active sexually in the late long haul with each other. Most seventies, early eighties. I would DS: Do you believe in a higher couples, straight of gay—50% of go to the St. Mark’s baths, which power? all straight couples end in divorce was very close to where I lived, EW: No, not at all. I’m glad people —I think it would be even higher if and get fucked twenty times in an do believe who are in the recovery people could afford to get evening, so why would I have not programs. I was an alcoholic—I divorced. Partly the people who been positive then? The first test guess you have to say I am an stay together are limited became available in 1984, but I alcoholic—and stopped drinking in financially. Anyway, I think that if moved to Paris in late 1982 and I 1983 and I never went to AA or you’re really in it for the long haul, wasn’t really living near any place. anything. I was living in Europe you have to give each other a So when I had the test done in where it was awfully hard to find tremendously long leash. 1985 in Zurich, the results had to AA in English, or even in French. It be sent to America to be analyzed; just isn’t part of their mores. It DS: Do you always practice safe we had to wait three months to was very easy for me to stop. It sex? get the results. That’s when I was impossible for me to EW: I do. Well, unless it’s found out I was positive. I only moderate, and very easy to stop. somebody who is also positive. If started taking meds a few years Same thing with smoking. I I’m positive, and somebody else is ago. smoked four packs a day for positive and he wants to bareback, twenty-some years, and from one that’s fine. DS: Why did you start? day to the next nothing. EW: My doctor advised me to DS: But there’s different strains of because my counts had dropped the virus, correct? below five hundred, or something. DS: If you’re going to sin, you’re EW: Or so they say. I don’t think They had always been around 700 going to fuck the devil? so. for years and years. Suddenly it EW: [Laughs] Well, I think I’m seemed like they were drifting very compulsive. So it’s not like
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I’m defiantly smoking four packs a were just in bed with a guy with a clever, very well-informed, very day or defiantly drinking three five o’clock shadow like you and all rehearsed talk, and whizzed out. bottles of wine, but it’s just what of a sudden he started going, “Goo Then I looked in this dining room happens when I start doing those goo goo goo” it would be a little where I saw six hundred chairs things. alarming. where they would all be thanking each other and congratulating DS: What’s your favorite curse DS: What trait do you deplore in each other, and I thought, “Get word? other people? me out of here!” and I left. And EW: I don’t curse very much and EW: Injustice. It can be anything nobody noticed. everybody agrees with that. Don’t like if it’s the laundry man refusing you agree with that Michael? to pay up to a little old lady, and DS: Do you have a relationship Michael: His favorite curse word is he’s lost ten of her shirts and gives with Larry Kramer at all? fuck. There’s a lot of fucking. her some rigmarole and gives her EW: We’re enemies. forms to fill out…I’ll defend her. I DS: Have you ever altered your get really hot under the collar. It’s DS: Why? opinion of somebody based upon not injustice done to me, it’s EW: We were friends and I think I their star sign? anybody. stayed friends with him longer EW: If they brought up their star than anybody else, but even I sign that would alter my opinion of DS: What do you value most in finally gave way because he them. [Laughs] your friends. attacked me in print in the most EW: Loyalty is very important, but vile and disgusting terms. DS: What would you find a bigger I’m very easy-going with people. turn-off in bed: somebody who For instance, we have a friend who DS: What did he say? was flatulent or somebody who really was impossible recently, but EW: When I first moved back to spoke in a baby voice? I guess if I really like the person I America 10 years ago— EW: A baby voice. [Laughs] I think see why he does these things and Michael: It was before that, the because flatulence I guess I could I’m not going to reproach him. I year before that. see as part of normal human don’t give advice and I don’t EW: The year before. I had a book physiology. It’s not an affectation reproach people. that came out called The Farewell if you fart. If you talk in a baby Symphony, which I think was voice it’s a deliberate affectation [edit] maybe my most important book. I and I think affectations in general On Larry Kramer sent Larry an early manuscript of are repellent. it because I wanted his opinion of DS: What role do you think you it. All he said to me was, “Did you DS: Is that one especially repellent play in the gay community? really have that much sex?” and I to you? EW: I don’t think I’m very said, “Well, Larry, everybody did in EW: It’s funny that you mention it prominent in the gay community. the seventies except you.” because I have a character in my A typical Ed White moment was—I Michael: Although that’s not what new book Who Told A Dream who was one of the six founders of the he was saying in that documentary is an androgyne, and it’s based Gay Men’s Health Crisis. Last last week. upon a real person. I wrote a book summer they had the 25th EW: Yeah, there was a called memoirs of androgyne. Not anniversary of the organization. I documentary about Fire Island only did she want men to treat her went to the party because I was where he was talking about he, —him—as a BABY, but he would invited. There are only three of us too, was part of the scene. Which give a blow job to anybody if they who are still alive of the six wasn’t true because he wasn’t; would say to him, “Isn’t this the original founders. Everybody was he’s too ugly. [Chuckles] Anyway, cutest whittle baby that every did dressed in black, they were all in suddenly he decided to attack my live,” and so on, and bounce him their thirties, they were all AIDS book and me months before it on their knee. I suppose if professionals, and nobody knew came out in America in these somebody was really kinky and who I was. I just wandered around really disgusting terms. "Edmund dirty and wanted to be powdered completely by myself. Hillary White’s mouth is busier than his and burped I could get into it, Clinton whizzed past me, looked at toilet—“ because I tend to like things that me in kind of a strange way as if Michael: No it was your ass. Your are demented like that. But if you she might know me, gave this very ass has been busier than a toilet
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