You Can't Live And Write At The

I Get To Do For A Living What I Did As A Child For Fun, And That's Pretty Cool.

Bechdel Test, Was Named For The Comic Strip It Came From, Penned By Alison Bechdel - But Bechdel Credits A Friend Named Liz Wallace, So Maybe It Really Should Be Called The Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, The Test Is Much Simpler Than The Name. To Pass It Your Movie Must Have The Following: A) There Are At Least Two Named Female Characters, Who B) Talk To Each Other About C) Something Other Than A Man.

My Father Once Nearly Came To Blows With A Female Dinner Guest About Whether A Particular Patch Of Embroidery Was Fuchsia Or Magenta. But The Infinite Gradations Of Color In A Fine Sunset - From Salmon To Canary To Midnight Blue - Left Him Wordless.

It's Imprecise And Insufficient, Defining The Homosexual As A Person Whose Gender Expression Is At Odds With His Or Her Sex.

I Suppose That A Lifetime Spent Hiding One's Erotic Truth Could Have A Cumulative Renunciatory Effect. Sexual Shame Is In Itself A Kind Of Death.