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I never knew before that this month is Gay, Lesbian and Transgender History Month. This isn't much of a surprise - the movement still seems to be taking baby steps: gay activists rarely speak out against the things you'd think they would ie, the rising number of crimes against gays in London, and instead save comments for things such as newly christened beer brands ('Queer Beer' should be hitting the shelves later on this year) and uptight Scots who refuse to let gay couples share a room.

There is a lot of literature to be found out there and I am rather lucky in that my local library is fantastic and has too many books either by gay authors or about the gay community to put them all out on display.

So yes. There you have it. That's the month.

How about we do an assembly together on Tuesday? Mr G. is rather openminded about this sort of thing.

Having finished all the Iris Murdoch books I could find, I have now turned to George Orwell: 'Down and Out in Paris and London' is very, very good and very funny. I read 'Animal Farm' a while back, but I'm more interested in his essays than anything, though 1984 (?) is a must-read, according to my Orwell expert.

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I am having the worst trouble with my Ancient Greek homework and my Religious Studies coursework.

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1984 is a little...mm. Worth the read, but I didn't think it was as good as it's supposed to be. Or maybe it is. I don't really remember, so ignore me.

But I think Animal Farm was better. Or at least I think I do. I don't really remember that either.

Actually, I think they were both as good as eachother in their own ways, and both very good.

Maybe.

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lol, that's fantastic, Suzy: a really in depth insight to Orwellian literature. You ought to try for a PhD!

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Are you mocking me?

Noooooooooo....

I have a solution to your problems with Social Issues coursework: make like S&M and don't do it.

(S&M= Suzy and Maud)

(Which we both find fairly amusing)

(In an entirely mature way)

Fantastic, Dr. S&M, you have solved all my problems!

lol

I assume you won't actually take that advice, right?

Damn goody-two-shoes. Motivated people are odd.

It depends. I'm all *blah* because I have so much Stats and A. Greek to do, but I just want to listen to music and type out my own stuff.

Do you sleep at any point?

I avoid it. There comes a point when you stay awake for long enough, that you are no longer tired, so long as you 'eat'. However, I do now and then (and waste soooo much time, you have no idea). It just annoys me that lately, I've been unable to do any of my work.

*stares at*

Lucky bitch.

-bitch. But damn you. Motivated and time effective. Like a new brand of vacuum cleaner.

Dude, I am determined to get a scholarship for University, and do generally so well with my studies that I can get away with anything once I finish my education.

But man, the flow has been blocked. I just can't work. It's so annoying. Maybe it's because I've been having more sleep than usual lately. Sleep is evil. Eeeevil (you can tell I need to switch to de-caff, can't yuo? lol).

Actually, many people have been saying this to me recently. Or possibly one person other than you. But it seems that there is a general lack of working ability sweeping through the year.

And seriously, how many hours of sleep do you get a night?

These days, around 5-6 hours. That's not as bad as it sounds, you know.

So you do sleep. I thought you meant like...2 hours.

Still.

That's what I used to do and I turned out great. But now... see what sleep has done to me. I am a ruin, a pale shadow of what I once was.

I can say with complete certainty that you are a damn lucky dawg.

Are you kidding? I just want to get out of here... and you is on the laptop right this instant: I can seee you...

Well I can see you more!

*looks at you*

Yeah...

I read 1984 the other week. It's a very powerful book. I thought it was pretty darn great. You should read it. Oh yes. Or else.

*holds up hands* ok, ok! lol I surrender: just le me finish his essays first...

After that you should read...

*gives massive list*

nooooooooooooooooooo!

Certainly. Love to. I also want to read 1984. Plus *long list*.

Brilliant. OK, I'll look up when the month was first set up and maybe some history of gay laws etc. Famous gays? I think everyone knows about Michaelangelo...

Da Vinci was a homo as well I think. Actually loads of 'em were. Damn queers all over the place.

Yes. Anyway.

Traditions? Laws, and when the came into action? Polari? Ancient Greece (though not gay. not even bi. just sexual)? Molly Houses? Modern famous gays? Rights?

Yes, that would be perfect. The secret gay history of London would be interesting...

Dude, she's right behind you! Careful!

Yeah. with the giving birth to vegetables and shit.

OK. Do you want to do Ancient - 19th cent History or 20th-21st cent.? I have a lot of good stuff about the Nazis and how the German gay community dealt with them as well as a few survivor stories (there was one written by a Jewish man who remembered a gay inmate who would always makes jokes and keep their morale high - though he ended up going tot eh Gas Chambers).

And Ms. Yates is used to me by now. I think all the teachers are, lol.

Up to you. I'll help with research and presentation and shit, but you have to make the decisions.

damn you.

OK - You do Ancient-19th cent history and I'll do modern history etc. And we can interrupt each other as we go along, like the militant activists that we are.

Ah nuts. You get the easy one. Ah well, I'll manage. Okey dokey. I'll look shit up.

Gay history? This is very random but I learnt about it today and it's still pleasing me to no end. You should check out Plato's theory on why we love. Not only is it pretty amusing, but he naturalises gay love which is nice. I have a title but I can't remember it. So there.

Plato: Read it in one of the Dialogues. The Symposium, (isn't it?) where they start discussing Love. Yeah, it's very funny at times - Socrates was one mean sarcastic motherf****r in a linen shift when it came to philosophical debates.

Don't star out letters. It really bugs me.

I can f*****g star out any b****y l*****s that I f*****g want.

lol

*glowers*

Oh, I started reading 1984 btw.

Ha, I just came all the way here to tell you it was Symposium but you got it yourself.

You bitch.

Ah-ah-aaah: I am an educated bitch...

i've just read this whole entry and it's the funniest thing i've read in weeks...

I personally think that Soho is the most intersting place in the whole of London, most probably with the most intersting history behind it, apart from perhaps the Tower of London...
there are lots of nice young men there (aww, they're so sweet!) and there's also the best cake shop in the whole of London. the only thing i don't like about it is the lone, middle-aged, heteralsexual men looking for young "beautiful" London women in the local sex shops...urgh. Give me a gay bar any day...

I LOVE SOHO. It's one of my favourite places in the world along with Amsterdam, New York and Barcelona.

And yeah, it always seems that the het male is either taken or a disgusting pervert...

Hey hey Florence look what I found.

mmoa_writes

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