with an heroic marxist Even when the reaches its inspiring and moving end where the people celebrate with their Sandinista flags and sing their songs we are spared a Soviet-film style peroration.
Because it combines the story of a revolttionary struggle with believable script it will attract please an audience much wider than us committed Jetties. That can ony be to the good.
THE LAST year has seen a big resurgence of gay writing, some very good, some pretty indifferent. Most of it has a shared common feature, that of a comfortable, middle class background for its main characters.
This little story is dif•ferent, reading if only for the of insights it gives into lives. of working class male gays and the gay male: 'scene'. The story line is simple, tracing the relationship between a young white ga!
from its start as a casual pick-up to its gradual collapse a couple of years later.
Rather The strength of the tale is the straightforwardness with which it raises the problems and joys of passion, DOssEssIvelless!
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