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December 27, 1978 – Boston – Journal

January 5, 2024 – 11:26 am

. The visit to my family in the Blue Hills had been comforting, but I hadn’t said a single word about Alice’s possible pregnancy. Not to my parents or sisters or brothers. At the dinner table I saw how proud my father was of his wife and family and I asked, if I would feel […]

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December 22, 1978 – East Village – Journal Entry

January 4, 2024 – 9:45 am

Andy promised to call me this afternoon from Boston. I hoped to stay with instead of my parents in Milton. I waited by the SRO hall phone at the 11th Street SRO. Nothing. I walked over to the St. Marks Bookstore, browsing Peter Matthieson’s THE SNOW LEOPARD. I wished I was a plane to Kathmandu. […]

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Journal Entry – January 4, 1978

January 4, 2024 – 1:00 am

I’ve slept with Fran several times this week. She wants to nail down my freedom. I don’t know why. Last night at One-Fifth Bert, Cecile, and I discussed romance. Bert is a homosexual portrait painter with a receding hairline and Cecilean older woman with a very avant-grade view of innocence. She loves make-up and dressing […]

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January 3, 1978

January 3, 2024 – 3:40 pm

This freezing afternoon I walked up Broadway in a thin leather jacket. I couldn’t resist stopping into Mayer’s Art. I entered Fran’s place of work. My eyesight was blurred, since I wasn’t wearing my glasses and thought she wasn’t there, but then I spotted Fran standing behind the counter with two co-workers. She stepped away […]

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December 21, 1978 – East Village – Journal

January 3, 2024 – 2:42 pm

GG Barnums on West 45th Street was good fun, especially the trans trapeze act and dancing between a glamorous queen and ballerina; Shannon and Dove. Shannon kept sticking poppers under my nose and Dove too, whispering ‘fuck me, fuck her’ in all seriousness dancing to Chic’s FREAK. Grant and John joined us in the dance […]

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