>>3808699...You know, the same homosexual community that I found such compassion from, I don’t feel that camaraderie from them anymore; I don’t feel it in the social scene; I don’t feel it in the arts. That’s weird to me. Because that was the group that I learned the most from, because they were certainly the most open-minded at that time. But if I say things about the mainstreaming of homosexuals, it’s because I don’t believe in mainstreaming or special interests legislating for themselves. What has happened with gays in America is that they pander so much to the heterosexual mainstream that they’ve taken on the complexes of the heterosexual mainstream. I mean if you’re not young and buff and pumped, you’re pretty much basically paying for sex. And a person like me, who’s odd-looking…
For example, when I was young, another generation of the gay community considered an odd-looking male beautiful. Look at Pasolini; the boy he loved the most was this pimple-faced boy he met at a Roman train station-is that the kind of boy that David Geffen is going with?
I don’t know how many of our readers have seen Salo, but I see your point.
GALLO:
When I’m reacting like that, I’m not bashing the gay community, I’m saying “Let’s make decisions for the good of all. Let’s really think in a broader way.” Let’s think a little past the obvious. And in that regard I’m always shot down, I’m always called a fascist, I’m always called a homophobe, and I’m always called a freak because I’m conservative politically. But how many phony liberals in Hollywood have danced at the Gaiety? I did. And part of me understands when I’m bashed in the media, for the things that I say, because I use loose language and crude descriptions.
