In the archives of the oral history of World War II, there is a very seminal interview   pertinent to the current 2018 border conditions. In the interview, an aging G.I. not a RAMBO nor an Audie Murphy, just a grunt, pulled from his factory job, his bowling league, his softball team to go fight the Germans, tells this story.  He is on guard duty, at a river crossing. He is a private, a combat soldier. His Captain tells him not to allow any German,soldier or civilian to cross the river. All is quiet, then a group of German refugees appear, civilians , men, women and children, young and old appear and start swimming across the river. He fires into the air, half of the refugees turn back. The others keep coming; he puts a round in the water ahead of them. All turn back, save an audacious woman. She swims on. He fires again into the air; she still swims on.   The other refugees are on the opposite riverbank watching. He fires a round into the w...

Quentin Crisp(THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT), in the Age of Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Andre Gide, Sir John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Leonard Bernstein, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Clifton Webb, and  Edward Albee, was the most famous openly Gay English speaking Gay in the world. He believed that there was no inherent tension between straight women and Gay men, because Gay Men were the only males sympathetic to straight women’s female afflictions. He thought there was tremendous tension between straight men and Gay men because, “straight men do not like what Gay men do in sex, and don’t want it done to them .” Crisp’s analysis was an Ockham razor’s approach to Discrimination against Gays. Quentin Crisp On March 25, 2013, I received an email from a Parisian sophisticate; she wrote me after watching anti-gay marriage rioters battle French riot police on the Champs-Elysees. The rioters were fighting their way to the Presidential Palace, to personally attack French President Hollan...