After walking around, eating pizza at the restaurant across from the hotel, and
walking,
to the bars.
I
read the
first
chapter of Cities on a Hill, which
about gay
is
compelling reading and, as an objective view, made some things clearer have been.
The amazing
Eighties
exactly the
is
our
my
transformation of gay
same story of what
open and not hide
went through
some ways very sympathetic.
It's
in the closet. In
to
It
was pretty
me
than they
from the early Seventies through the
New
in
many ways
not an easy time to be
York.
who
generation and the preceding one for those of us
lives in the
difficult
I
life
and gay
politics
San Francisco (pre-AIDS and post-AIDS).
liberation in the Castro area of
report on
more
faxed Julia and decided to stay in and read instead of going "out" to Shinjuku
I
a kind of
It is
have chosen to
live
made me proud and
it
in
and maybe an even more
alive,
time to die.
TUESDAY, JULY
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Woke up and went shopping in Harajuku and great. It's
hard not
to
Shibuya. Coughing a
worry or speculate about being
help, especially after reading about
AIDS
"sick,"
until three in the
and
and not
lot
morning
feeling so
coughing doesn't
this
last night.
Walked
around, visited Pop Shop (which was empty) and was sort of depressed and discouraged.
Saw lots more
fakes or versions of my art
a part of the visual culture of Japan
on
kinds of things.
and been assimilated so much
any association with me, but rather appears
lost
all
to
have been here
It
that
all
has it
become such
has completely
the time
and
is
now
akin to "the English characters of the alphabet."
Met Kaz and Tatsuno sation against Indio.
We
cannot
made
their
It
go
to
seemed
alert the press
to the police station in
to
Shibuya
to officially
go well and they may take action before
I
file
an accu-
leave
Tokyo.
or do any kind of action for the media until the police have
move.
After the meeting
we returned
to the office
and Fran and
I
went
to eat
something.
We
discussed her next movie and talked about sex and gender roles in Japan, trying to figure out
why people do what
as laid
down
in
they
do or
A guy from was ject.
way they do. Because
the Bible here, the sexual rules
male/female definition and not so
tant art dealers
act the
Swiss Air told
much
me
there
seem more
is
no moral code
a part of traditional
"morality."
a story of a recent dinner he
was
at
with
many impor-
where he asked the Saatchis, "Do you work with Keith Haring?" There
total silence at the table,
and he was
How was he to know? We had a long discussion
culture, particularly
later told
he shouldn't have brought up the sub-
trying to figure out Japanese understanding of
me. Through trying
to
answer
their questions
about
my
American
situation in
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