Ed White bares all.(dialogue with Edmund White )(Interview)

Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

Publication Date: 28-MAR-06

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Edmund White pities his heterosexual peers. "I look at straight male friends of mine who've recently written memoirs and realize that they can't afford to be as honest as I can," says the award-winning author. "If they talk about their promiscuity or their obsessive sexual desires, they have to consider society's reaction, not te mention their wive'." As a gay man, White believes he has no such concerns. "You know that expression, freedom means having nothing left to lose. Well, I can say anything I want. I can say I've been fucked over 3,000 times. I can say I have HIV. I can say I've hired hustlers." And he does. His memoir, My Lives, is nothing if not candid....

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