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Patrick Gale
Reviews of Harsh Music
Gale&#;s limpid prose, unforced and denuded of artifice, is more vivid and revealing than any snapshot, faithfully illuminating the vicissitudes of the heart, memory&#;s fragility and the wear and tear of habit on desire.
The Sunday Times &#; Trevor Lewis
Patrick Gale is among the great, unsung English novelists. He has written a dozen books, each confirming a remarkable insight into his chosen subject, the vagaries of the human heart. His works attract huge readerships &#; mostly women or gay men &#; drawn by the witty, pathos-filled analyses of how we conduct relationships, both within the family and outside. Gale has never mistaken self-publicity for literary importance. His novels form a quiet gathering, not a series of brash entrances. They impress confidently but gently, like those of the closest of his peers, Barbara Trapido, Helen Dunmore and Colm Toibin&#; If Rough Music sounds dark, it is rather &#; but marvellously so. Gripping, classy and wise, it is Gale&#;s leading book to date, and should not be missed.
The Independent Kojima Yasushi, the director of this documentary, was a student of Imamura Shohei at the Japanese filmschool, until last year. Kojima specialized himself in documentary film. He submitted a proposal to make his final project about the gay community in Japan. He was interested in these men. He had a sideline in a snackbar in the 'pink' quarters of Shinjuku: every night, he saw a group of homosexual men drifting about in the streets of the neighbourhood. He wondered how these men's daily contacts were. Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran serving time for a non-violent crime, has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day. In a legal complaint that reads like a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ""Oz,"" the ACLU detailed the story of year-old Navy veteran Roderick Johnson of Marshall, Texas, who for the last 18 months has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day. ""Prison officials knew that gangs made Roderick Johnson their sex slave and did nothing to help him,"" said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. ""Our lawsuit shows that Texas prison officials think black men can't be victims and believe gay men always desire sex -- so they threw our client to the wolves."" According to the ACLU complaint, Johnson appeared before the prison's all-white classification committee seven separate times asking to be placed in safe keeping from predatory prisoners. Instead of prote The Gang's All Queer
"The Gang's All Queer not only provides an exciting and rich description of gay gang life, but it exposes the ease with which we'd heretofore seen gangs as an entirely (unexamined) heterosexual enterprise. A startling and essential book." ~Michael Kimmel,author of Enraged White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
"The Gangs All Queer offers a treasure trove of insights for gang scholars, but more importantly, demonstrates how much we all contain to gain by embracing the queer criminological turn." ~Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
"This book makes a substantial contribution to queer criminology. The book artfully shifts from the conception of gays as victims of detest crime to gays as agents and offenders, all while challenging troubling racist stereotypes of queer and Black masculinities. The conversations that this book can facilitate will greatly impact how we think about crime and criminology, while developing queer, jet, and racialized-inclusive criminological rese
Rough Sketch of a Spiral
The design was accepted by the school board. Never before had a film been made about this almost closed off community in Japan. Kojima got in contact with four men in Osaka. He wanted to base his film on the highly different life-stories of these gay men.
Kojima and his crew lived together with them for five months. He found out that great prejudices about their lives existed. If he wanted to make a subtle portrait of this community, he first had to take away those prejudices. This appeared to be doomed within the period of time put out for
Texas Officials Complicit in Gang Rape and Sexual Slavery of Gay Black Male, ACLU Charges