{"id":2753,"date":"2009-01-07T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:50:19","slug":"maybe-not-angry-straight-guy-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2753","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Not Angry Straight Guy After All…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been some conversation over on SLOG today that the author of those threatening letters to gay bars in Seattle might actually be a gay man himself.  I wasn’t convinced, until I saw this…<\/p>\n

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Good Work, Sloggers<\/a><\/h3>\n

Posted by Dan Savage<\/a> \t on Wed, Jan 7<\/span> at 12:31 PM<\/span><\/h4>\n
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Remix in comments<\/a> flagged an important clue about the author of the Ricin Letters. The line…<\/p>\n

\"letterlinepoem.jpg\"<\/p>\n

…is from a poem, "A Display of Mackerel<\/a>", from a collection by poet Mark Doty. The poem appeared in Atlantis<\/em>, a 1996 collection of poems that Doty wrote after the HIV-related death of his partner in 1994.<\/p>\n

They don’t care they’re dead
\nand nearly frozen,<\/p>\n

just as, presumably,
\nthey didn’t care that they were living:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So whoever wrote the letter knows—and plagiarizes—his gay poets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s…pretty telling.  It’s not conclusive, but I’m not making any more assumptions about this guy until he’s caught.  Let’s hope that happens before he actually kills someone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been some conversation over on SLOG today that the author of those threatening letters to gay bars in Seattle might actually be a gay man himself.  I wasn’t convinced, until I saw this… Good Work, Sloggers Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Jan 7 at 12:31 PM Remix in comments flagged an important clue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49,32,21,20,90],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crime-and-violence","tag-hate","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-human-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}