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Goodbye queer sensibility?

He [Paul Rudnick] sees much of the popularization of gay sensibility as "winks to straight people. We used to raise up the nation, now we're trying to prove that we too can wear T-shirts that say 'I'm With Stupid.' "

Death of the sexual outlaw?

"One must mourn his passing," says John Rechy, whose books "City of Night" and "The Sexual Outlaw" were groundbreaking documentaries of gay life on the fringe. "But I hope gay people don't become so entirely assimilated that our very rich differences are subsumed."

When gay lost its outré