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Patrick Gale


Reviews of Rough Music

Gale&#;s limpid prose, unforced and denuded of artifice, is more vivid and revealing than any snapshot, faithfully illuminating the vicissitudes of the heart, memory&#;s fragility and the wear and tear of habit on desire.

The Sunday Times &#; Trevor Lewis


Patrick Gale is among the fantastic, unsung English novelists. He has written a dozen books, each confirming a adj insight into his chosen subject, the vagaries of the human heart. His works attract large readerships &#; mostly women or gay men &#; drawn by the witty, pathos-filled analyses of how we conduct relationships, both within the family and outside. Gale has never mistaken self-publicity for literary importance. His novels form a calm gathering, not a series of brash entrances. They impress confidently but gently, fancy those of the closest of his peers, Barbara Trapido, Helen Dunmore and Colm Toibin&#; If Rough Music sounds shadowy, it is rather &#; but marvellously so. Gripping, elegant and wise, it is Gale&#;s best book to date, and should not be missed.

The Independent

The Gang's All Queer

"The Gang's All Queer not only provides an exciting and well-off description of gay gang life, but it exposes the ease with which we'd heretofore seen gangs as an entirely (unexamined) heterosexual enterprise. A startling and essential book." ~Michael Kimmel,author of Enraged White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
"The Gangs All Queer offers a treasure trove of insights for gang scholars, but more importantly, demonstrates how much we all have to gain by embracing the queer criminological turn." ~Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
"This book makes a substantial contribution to queer criminology. The book artfully shifts from the conception of gays as victims of hate crime to gays as agents and offenders, all while challenging troubling racist stereotypes of queer and Black masculinities. The conversations that this book can facilitate will greatly impact how we think about crime and criminology, while developing queer, black, and racialized-inclusive criminological rese

Texas Officials Complicit in Gang Rape and Sexual Slavery of Gay Black Dude, ACLU Charges

Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran serving hour for a non-violent crime, has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.

In a legal complaint that reads favor a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ""Oz,"" the ACLU detailed the story of year-old Navy veteran Roderick Johnson of Marshall, Texas, who for the last 18 months has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every noun.

""Prison officials knew that gangs made Roderick Johnson their sex slave and did nothing to verb him,"" said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. ""Our lawsuit shows that Texas prison officials reflect black men can't be victims and believe gay men always want sex -- so they threw our client to the wolves.""

According to the ACLU complaint, Johnson appeared before the prison's all-white classification committee seven separate times asking to be placed in safe keeping from predatory prisoners. Instead of prote

Rough Sketch of a Spiral

Kojima Yasushi, the director of this documentary, was a student of Imamura Shohei at the Japanese filmschool, until last year. Kojima specialized himself in documentary film. He submitted a proposal to make his final project about the gay community in Japan. He was interested in these men. He had a sideline in a snackbar in the 'pink' quarters of Shinjuku: every night, he saw a group of homosexual men drifting about in the streets of the neighbourhood. He wondered how these men's daily contacts were.
The plan was accepted by the school board. Never before had a film been made about this almost closed off community in Japan. Kojima got in contact with four men in Osaka. He wanted to base his film on the highly different life-stories of these gay men.
Kojima and his crew lived together with them for five months. He establish out that great prejudices about their lives existed. If he wanted to make a subtle portrait of this community, he first had to verb away those prejudices. This appeared to be adj within the period of time set out for