[net.motss] A Book Review: 'The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions'

tj@sun.uucp (Cal Thixton) (04/13/84)

	I recently picked up a book, in all places, a north Dallas
non-gay bookstore, called 'Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions',
by Larry Mitchell with drawings from Ned Asta, '77. This books is not
old, although I've never seen it. It is a story of a world where there
are men, women, queers, faggots, fairies, queen, and a few others. This
book is a collection of short 1 to 5 paragraph stories of the people of
this world. This world, however, has a direct one to one and onto 
correspondence to this world, amazingly enough. It starts out describing the
great cultures of the women and how they were destroyed by the men. 
The men were originally faggots, but a dis-ease befell them and they went
mad destroying all that was good and beautiful and anything not of the
men was worthy only of abuse. A sample:

	When things are loose, you can tell the faggots from the men.
	The men wear grey and the faggots wear all the other colors.
	When things are tight, the faggots hang all the colors in
	their closets and fade back to the greyness of the men,
	known only to each other and wait.

(I realize that this is probably a breach of their copyright, sorry).
This book has wonderful insight into how things really are and it lets
us feel better about ourselves. (I felt better anyway). And it will make
you laugh. The publisher is: 
	Calamus Books, P.O. Box 689, Cooper Station, NY NY 10003.
Do get it and Enjoy, you will.

					Cal Thixton
					...ctvax!uokvax!emtj
					...sun!tj

tj@sun.uucp (Cal Thixton) (04/13/84)

(it seems that this was eaten by some news bug, so here it is again...)
I recently picked up a book, in all places, a north Dallas
non-gay bookstore, called 'Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions',
by Larry Mitchell with drawings from Ned Asta, '77. This books is not
old, although I've never seen it. It is a story of a world where there
are men, women, queers, faggots, fairies, queen, and a few others. This
book is a collection of short 1 to 5 paragraph stories of the people of
this world. This world, however, has a direct one to one and onto 
correspondence to this world, amazingly enough. It starts out describing the
great cultures of the women and how they were destroyed by the men. 
The men were originally faggots, but a dis-ease befell them and they went
mad destroying all that was good and beautiful and anything not of the
men was worthy only of abuse. A sample:

	When things are loose, you can tell the faggots from the men.
	The men wear grey and the faggots wear all the other colors.
	When things are tight, the faggots hang all the colors in
	their closets and fade back to the greyness of the men,
	known only to each other and wait.

(I realize that this is probably a breach of their copyright, sorry).
This book has wonderful insight into how things really are and it lets
us feel better about ourselves. (I felt better anyway). And it will make
you laugh. The publisher is: 
	Calamus Books, P.O. Box 689, Cooper Station, NY NY 10003.
Do get it and Enjoy, you will.

					Cal Thixton
					...ctvax!uokvax!emtj
					...sun!tj