For the second evening on the theme of "Literary Gossip and Romance", writers were again asked to bring work by lesbian and gay authors from the pre-Stonewall era. Highlight include: an elderly Allen Ginsberg reading early poems by Walt Whitman; Gary Indiana reading a letter from William Burroughs about Tangier, self-pity, and the relationship between innocence and depravity (it includes the memorable line "Fuck your neighbor. He may like it."); Jaime Manrique reading from his memoir about Manuel Puig, who gave movie-star nicknames to all the writers of the Latin American Boom (Borges was "Norma Shearer"); and Catherine McKinley reading Lorraine Hansberry's letters (signed with an acronym) to the pioneering lesbian magazine "The Ladder".
