'After about five minutes or so a youngish man with a hairstyle which was way out in 1958, short, college-boy came up and said, "...I'm Brian Epstein's personal assistant."
'It crossed my mind to wonder why the English have never got around to finding a perfectly respectable word for "boyfriend".'
Joe Orton, diary entry January 24th 1967.
From the introduction to Up Against It.
Dunno exactly why but something made me think about this PA/boyfriend continuum quotation today.
Moral: Don't think the closet will save you - it'll only fuck you over in the end.
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