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9/26/19

GORE VIDAL TEA SALON- OCTOBER 2ND

PRESENTS

GORE VIDAL TEA SALON

(PORTRAITS OF GORE VIDAL BY RICK CASTRO 2002)

OCTOBER 2ND, 2019

5PM

(SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM )

$25 COVER

PREPAY RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

~ENJOY~

HAND-BLENDED TEA

CAKES & DAINTIES

VIEW EROTIC ART

ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS

RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA

LEARN MORE ABOUT GORE!

HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK, CA 90026

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GORE VlDAL

(October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)

was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

Because of his matter-of-fact treatment of same-sex relations in such books as The City and The Pillar, (1948), followed much later by Myra Brenkenridge, (1968) and Myron,(1974) Vidal is often seen as an early champion of sexual liberation.

RICK CASTRO: GORE VIDAL AT HOME 2002

7/25/19

GORE VIDAL TEA SALON

PRESENTS

GORE VIDAL TEA SALON

JULY 31ST, 2019

5PM

(SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM )

$20 COVER PREPAY RESERVATION

$25 CASH DAY OF THE SALON

~ENJOY~

HAND-BLENDED TEA

CAKES & DAINTIES

VIEW EROTIC ART

ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS
LEARN MORE ABOUT GORE VIDAL!

RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

RICK CASTRO: PORTRAIT OF GORE VIDAL 2003

TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE

1421 LAVETA TERRACE

ECHO PARK, CA 90026

INFO-ANTEBELLUM@EARTHLINK.NET

RICK CASTRO SHOOTING GORE VIDAL 2003

GORE VIDAL

(October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012)

was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner,

epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

Vidal thought all men and women are potentially bisexual.

As a novelist, Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life.

His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters.

His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, centering the plot around a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship.

In social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender role and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores.

"THE UNFED MIND, DEVOURS ITSELF"

GORE VIDAL

6/1/16

ANTEBELLUM BOOK CLUB READS- MYRON

5/29/16

MYRA BRECKINRIDGE

Myra Breckinridge novel, (1968)
satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s," the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility. The controversial book is also "the first instance of a novel in which the main character undergoes a clinical sex-change." Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.

Myra Breckinridge was dismissed by some of the era's more conservative critics as pornographic at the time of its first publication in February 1968, but nevertheless immediately became a worldwide bestseller and has since come to be considered a classic in some circles. "It is tempting to argue that Vidal said more to subvert the dominant rules of sex and gender in Myra than is contained in a shelf of queer theory treatises," wrote Dennis Altman. Critic Harold Bloom cites the novel as a canonical work in his book The Western Canon. Vidal called Myra his favorite of his books, and published a sequel, Myron, in 1974.

The novel was adapted into a 1970 film of the same name, which was universally panned. Vidal disowned the film, calling it "an awful joke".

Myra Breckinridge, (film1970)

American comedy film based on Gore Vidal's 1968 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Sarne, and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae West as Leticia Van Allen, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed, Roger Herren, and Roger C. Carmel. Tom Selleck made his film debut in a small role as one of Leticia's "studs". Theadora Van Runkle was costume designer for the film, though Edith Head designed West's costumes.

Like the novel, the picture follows the exploits of Myra Breckinridge as she goes to Hollywood to turn it inside out; also in the story are a former Hollywood siren named Leticia and Myra's alter ego, Myron, who originally was a man before he became Myra.

The picture was controversial for its sexual explicitness (including acts like pegging), but unlike the novel, Myra Breckinridge received little to no critical praise and has been cited as one of the worst films ever made.

5/26/16

ANTEBELLUM BOOK CLUB- MYRA BRECKINRIDGE BY GORE VIDAL

ANTEBELLUM'S BOOK CLUB WILL MEET THIS SUNDAY- MAY 29TH- 1PM

$10 MEMBERSHIP

we are reading the cult classic- MYRA BRECKINRIDGE by gore vidal.

ground breaking for it's time- (1968)

and right on the mark with transsexual civil rights of current times.

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Myra Breckinridge,( 1968)

satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s," the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility.

The controversial book is also "the first instance of a novel in which the main character undergoes a clinical sex-change." Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.

Myra Breckinridge was dismissed by some of the era's more conservative critics as pornographic at the time of its first publication in February 1968, but nevertheless immediately became a worldwide bestseller and has since come to be considered a classic in some circles. "It is tempting to argue that Vidal said more to subvert the dominant rules

of sex and gender in Myra than is contained in a shelf of queer theory treatises,

" wrote Dennis Altman.

Vidal called Myra his favorite of his books, and published a sequel, Myron, in 1974.

The novel was adapted into a 1970 film of the same name, which was universally panned.

Vidal disowned the film, calling it "an awful joke".

Vidal first contemplated writing Myra Breckinridge as a sketch for the risqué revue Oh! Calcutta! but quickly decided to develop the story into a novel. He wrote the first draft in Rome over the course of a month. About two weeks into writing the novel Gore decided to make Myra transgender. The name "Breckinridge" was taken from Bunny Breckinridge,

as associate of director Ed Wood.