Passing Away of one of the great gay figures of our times

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I don't know how many of the youth of these boards have heard of or read (about) Gore Vidal but he was one great proponent of the gay cause. Sometimes deeply vitriolic, he did not suffer fools gladly. His death is a loss to all of us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-korn..._hp_ref=dc
An essayist, writer and journalist and great critic of society and in particular western societies, and his own country, Gore passed away at the age of 88. May he Rest In Peace.


Eugene Luther Gore Vidal ([/url]October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was a liberal [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans]American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality. He also ran for political office twice and was a longtime political critic.

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He was just so cute in this picture.


Man of letters and man of the world:

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For the cat lovers:


for the naked pool boy (Chad White) lovers :


As a younger man:

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For those of you who'd like to listen to this interview of him in 2008.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d8h6r

For those of you who'd like to bone up on him, a bit:
http://fr.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A7x9Qb...Gore_Vidal

[LateBloomer]

Thanks.

I was gonna start a thread, but got distracted.

I'm an admirer of Vidal. A scathing critic of Pres Bush in his later years, he was just what I needed when I thought my country had lost its collective mind back around 2003-2008.

Vidal might quibble with my dates of insanity...