She remembered me clearly, bringing up the time I went on bvacation/b with her family. We hadn't seen each other in forty-nine years. As the conversation progressed, I said, ?It's too bad about Richard.? ?What do you mean? ... It fascinates people, and, of course, with the emergence of gay literature in the past half century, especially since the early work of James Baldwin and Gore Vidal, later followed by John bRechy/b (CITY OF NIGHT), there is a whole critical field. ...
