![]() ![]() The book, as even Less comes to see, has been artistically petrified by his character’s self-pity, that “gorgon of Caucasian male ego.” It’s as good as dead. “It’s a little hard to feel sorry for a guy like that,” a lesbian friend explains. Less is shocked when his publisher rejects it outright. Less, like Greer, is a middle-aged gay white novelist his latest manuscript, “Swift,” is a sombre tale of-what else?-a middle-aged gay white man who wanders around San Francisco à la Leopold Bloom in Dublin, suffering various setbacks and contemplating his regrets. Or so Arthur Less, the protagonist of “ Less,” Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer-winning 2017 novel, is forced to conclude. But a gay white guy as a marginalized hero, an underdog whose private tragedies we mourn? That’s a harder sell. Wickham is given to Dex, a white seducer who deploys his Tom of Finland physique and sterling Instagram politics to prey upon his dazzled prospects. ![]() Take the recent film “Fire Island,” Joel Kim Booster’s adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice”: while the Bennet sisters are transformed into a gaggle of gay friends of color (mostly), the role of the villainous Mr. ![]() Not as notorious as his heterosexual counterpart, more socially privileged than his queer peers, he has been drained of popular sympathy by virtue of his cultural success. ![]()
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