Gary was gay and in those days we were all part gay, weren't we? According to Gary one-in-four men were gay, and so I thought well, be friends, don't be prejudiced. He took me round Madrid. "Cibeles", he said, is a gay pick up point." "The Retiro ," he said: "is a gay pick up point." "Plaza Espanya," he said is a gay pick up point (in fact it is the symbolic centre of fascism in Spain) ....until my whole map of Madrid became Gary's gay map. "How would you describe your sexuality" , he asked me: "Well, to some extent, I suppose I am polymorphously perverse." - I was taking the Mickey. "Aha!" He said. "That means you are gay. The only place they mention that word is in the gay literature." "Well actually" , I said, (my pretentiousness still gongs back to me over the years) "I read it in a book by Freud and not the gay literature." But what shocked me was this overlay...
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