Anonymous ID: ee4943 Sept. 20, 2020, 5:53 p.m. No.10726451   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6726

The world premiere occurred on September 20, 2016, during the season two premiere of Scream Queens on FOX. Gaga also shared a preview of the video, showing her swinging a microphone over her head as an ecstatic crowd cheers on.[79] The visuals begin with her singing while driving a jeep through a desert and then finally performing in front of a crowd, aided by the producers. The video ends with Gaga rolling around alone in the desert. Jack White from the Official Charts Company noted that the editing consisted of "quick, jagged camera cuts" which made up majority of the visuals.[83] In 2017, filming of the music video was included in the documentary film, Gaga: Five Foot Two.[84]

Anonymous ID: ee4943 Sept. 20, 2020, 6:08 p.m. No.10726626   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6726

The main character, Fred Lemish, is loosely modeled on Kramer. Lemish wants to find a loving, long-term relationship. His desires are frustrated as he stumbles through an emotionally cold series of glory holes, bathhouses, BDSM encounters and group sex. He becomes disillusioned with the 1970s "fast lane" lifestyle dominating the gay subculture in and around New York.

 

Lemish also expresses discomfort with the widespread use of multiple street and prescription drugs helping to maintain the party atmosphere. Faggots details the use of over two dozen 1970s party drugs and intoxicants such as Seconal, poppers, LSD, Quaaludes, alcohol, marijuana, Valium, PCP, cocaine and heroin.

 

The book moves through, among other locales, a gay bathhouse called the "Everhard" (based on the Everard Baths), a large disco named Capriccio, an orgy at the apartment of a successful gay lawyer, the spectacular opening of a club called The Toilet Bowl, and ends with a tumultuous weekend on Fire Island.

Anonymous ID: ee4943 Sept. 20, 2020, 6:09 p.m. No.10726634   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6726

A young man (Rechy uses the term โ€œyoungmanโ€ when referring to hustlers) travels across the country while working as a hustler. The book focuses chapters on locations that the youth visits and certain personages he meets there, from New York City, to Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans. Throughout the novel, the unnamed narrator has trysts with various peculiar characters, including another hustler, an older man, an S&M enthusiast and a bed-ridden old man. All of these relationships range in the extent of their emotional and sexual nature, as well as in their peculiarity.

 

The book includes writing about the Cooper Do-nuts Riot, which happened in 1959 in Los Angeles, when the lesbians, gay men, transgender people, and drag queens who hung out at Cooper Do-nuts and who were frequently harassed by the LAPD fought back after police arrested three people, including Rechy. Patrons began pelting the police with donuts and coffee cups. The LAPD called for back-up and arrested a number of rioters. Rechy and the other two original detainees were able to escape.[2]

Anonymous ID: ee4943 Sept. 20, 2020, 6:11 p.m. No.10726647   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6726

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you an illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."

The beginning of Tom's opening soliloquy.