From: Fred Camper (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 12:31:17 PST
Quoting Freya <email suppressed>:
> ....As for Gregorys attitude to the U.S. souring AFTER he left for
> Europe, my understanding was that attitudes towards gay people in
> the U.S. and in particular in the experimental film scene of the
> time, played a big part in him leaving the U.S. in the first place.
> Basically he was driven out of both....
>
> It's ironic to me that Gregory was so lambasted and attacked for
> being "too obsessed with this homosexual thing"....
Do you have any evidence for any of ths? Where did you get this information.
I know of a notorious attack on an early Markopoulos film in "Films in
Review," an attack so cowardly it didn't even use the "H-word," and
then an early Jonas Mekas critique of homosexuality that he later
retracted completely. These were no later than the 1950s. So what's
your evidence for these statements?
Fred Camper
Chicago
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