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Finished the first of two essays which is mandatory for my Queer Life Narratives class and I’m honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. In Time Square Blue Samuel Delaney shares personal stories about his various sexual encounters in the bustling pornographic theatre scene of the 1960s-early 90s.

It is language (and/as social habit) that cuts the world up into the elements, objects, and categories we so glibly call reality—a reality that includes the varieties of desire; a reality where what is real is what must be dealt with, which is one with the political: the world is what it is cut up into—all else is metaphysics.

What homosexuality and prostitution represented for my uncle was the untrammeled pursuit of pleasure; and the untrammeled pursuit of pleasure was the opposite of social responsibility.

Large businesses and offices must alternate with small businesses and human services, even while places to live at all levels, working-class, middle-class, and luxurious, large and small, must embraid with them into a community.