Confessions of 'A Gay Globetrotter'
by Johnson O'Toole
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Author: Johnson O'TooleEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-10
ISBN: 0755200799
Number of pages: 268
Publisher: Authors OnLine Ltd.
Book Reviews of Confessions of 'A Gay Globetrotter'
Book Review: FETISH!: The Chocolate-loving GWM speaks!
Summary: 2 Stars
In Robert Aldrich's amazing book "Colonialism and Homosexuality," he discusses how a HUGE number of white men did not express their gay desires until they were out of the eyes of other whites and around men of color outside of the First World. There are not enough works out there about gay men who lived gay lives before the Stonewall Riots or the Wolfenden Report. Outside of that valid fact, this book was some fetishy mess.
Johnson O'Toole is a white man (he would say "British expat") who was born in India, spent a bit of time in London and lots of time in West Africa. He is a gay man who has lots of hot sex everywhere he goes, most often on a one-time basis. To his credit, there are many people, of various sexualities, that LOVE being abroad. They would take a ticket to anywhere and learn any foreign language you dare them to comprehend. Also, John D'Emilio has critiqued gay biographies that emphasize gay life over the other phenomena that probably made the man famous in the first place. So O'Toole likes to travel; he talks about his jobs and his pets as much as all the hot sex with men of color. Still, his pursuit of any male not of European ancestry is, again, just some fetishy mess.
Somehow O'Toole knows of current terms like "political correctness," which he condemns, but this book is dangerously and annoyingly apolitical. He has all kinds of sex with males of color who probably wouldn't identify as gay. He never questions whether his whiteness provides him with access to all these sex partners. He knows the term "PC" but not "white privilege." When his straight male peers pay female prostitutes of color, he participates as well. He complains of how he dislikes heterosexual sex, but never once notes that he exploits female bodies of color in order not to out himself. Again, he has heard of "PC," but has never heard of Adrienne Rich's term "compulsory heterosexuality." He never once condemns colonizers for telling non-whites to embrace Christianity while they hire prostitutes at the drop of a dime. Though the author is not that much older than his sexual partners, he almost always refers to them as "boys." He even once calls Nigerians "black b*st*rds." Ol' racist! Even if he is gay.
So he is forced to have heterosexual sex. He is kicked out of the army for making a pass at a man, but he never once uses the term "homophobia." He does not try to make friends with other (white) men suspected of being gay. He is just infatuated with darker-complected "trade." He never once, even in hindsight, tries to look at his forced choices under the political vacuum in which they exist.
One cultural critic said Schwarzennegger's name says black twice. Another cultural critic said filmmaker John Waters' name says "Number One" twice. Well, the name Johnson O'Toole is obviously a false name, but definitely doubly phallic. He never once explains why a person born in the early 20th century would have a yuppie first name. He states that his is of English descent, not Irish, so why is his last name O'Toole? How are you going to write under a pen name and then have photographs from your life in between the pages?
This book is only meant for men with ethnic fetishes. It is superficial and written in a painfully small script. It is just a stroke book posing as a serious autobiography.
I love independent presses. They have served a crucial lifeline to gay male and lesbians writers. Still, the drawing in crayola color pencils on the front cover and the spelling errors on the back cover and throughout the book does not help the author's cause.
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