Gary In Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher (Series Q)
by Gary Fisher
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Author: Gary FisherEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09
ISBN: 0822317990
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Book Review: I knew Gary
Summary: 3 Stars
I knew Gary when we both attended UNC in the early 80's. If you read his journals, you will recognize me as "John" or "Johnny". I am a white gay man. I came out of the closet in 1981 and Gary was one of the first people in the UNC "community" that I met...we had a German class together. We became great friends (platonic) and eventually roommates...for a time he was my best friend. As referenced in his journals, Gary moved to the San Francisco area in 1983, and I moved out there in 1984. We continued our friendship there. I moved back to the south in 1986, but we kept in touch, until I discovered that he was HIV+ in 1989...I tried to contact him with my support but we lost contact after that. Just recently, after a random google I discovered that he had died and that this book had been written. I bought it immediately.
The book, which makes for spicy reading, only presents a small side of the Gary Fisher I knew...although he may have explored the darker sides of his sexuality after we left contact. But I know that the content of his journals was profound and spritual. True, he did not embrace his race...most of his friends were white...he considered himself a gay man, not a black man.
The author of this book chose only to highlight the sexual aspects of Gary's journals...I imagine this was intentional since she is somewhat of an expert on sexuality and most of her work concerns this, but the reader must remember, the content of this book all comes from Gary's journals, and as pornographic as it seems, much of it may only be imaginary. Gary even admitted to me that he didn't mind "enhancing" his stories sometimes.
I had mixed feelings reading this book..in some aspects there was some personal closure as to what had happened to him...I imagined he had passed but now know for sure.
At first I was angry after reading this book. How could such a brilliant person just throw his life way so early, just for the pursuit of sexual fantasy. But then I remembered the Gary I knew...this Gary saw fantasy in everything and he wrote these images down daily for most of his life. I wish the readers of this book could read the full content of his journals because they would be left with a different impression of him. In my opinion, given that this is the only book with Gary's writings, the author has shown Gary only as a sexual being...this is a great disservice to him and to those of us who knew him.
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