“Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.”

Texas (p. 128).
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980)

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American novelist and LGBT essayist 1940

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