Sublime

The stories of the participants make it clear that it marked the convergence of homophile-era activism with the energy and vision of the civil rights, antiwar, and counterculture movements that were transforming the country.

propinquity,

He tells us stories. He is sympathetic, charming. But his gestures, offering me a glass of wine or a cigarette, are clothed in arrogance, in the arrogant humility of the East.

James Jones, who was living in Illinois and inching ahead with From Here to Eternity.

then a castaway in the wide ocean of possibility,

You could spend hours of your life here, in a state of suspended insecurity,

Club du Lys in Paris.