1970s Quote by Edmund White

“AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.”

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1970s Aids Gays General Had Longer Populace Privileged Seemed Sympathy Won

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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

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From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and…

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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find…

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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only…

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As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we…

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Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

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I'm a product of the 1970s.

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Once, bit-fetching was the job mainly of children. In the 1970s, if I sat too long looking bored, I'd be dispatched to the shop…

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Wings was one of the first bands in the 1970s to do stadium tours, as well as Led Zeppelin. We had all the most…

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The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.

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I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s.…

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When I was growing up in the projects in Philadelphia in the 1970s and 80s, Cadillac was the car to have. But I always…

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I don't really have a treasured possession, but I do love my family's proper old photo album. We all have hundreds of photos on…

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My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

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When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.

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My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.

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