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   Mack A. Damia to drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
   Re: Midnight Cowboy review   
   06 Jan 23 06:41:34   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:26:58 -0800, Mack A. Damia   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 23:00:46 -0800 (PST), Edward Jackson   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 6:08:00 PM UTC-8, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 17:52:06 -0800 (PST), Edward Jackson   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 4:30:47 PM UTC-8, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   >>> >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 18:58:18 -0500, moviePig    
   >>> >> wrote:   
   >>> >> >On 1/5/2023 6:29 PM, Edward Jackson wrote:   
   >>> >> >> Over Fucking rated   
   >>> >> >   
   >>> >> >It broke some Hollywood taboos. Doesn't have that punch today.   
   >>> >> Very relatable to those who knew the time and place. 1960s-1970s NYC.   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >> Times change, but it still has a certain intensity to it.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >   
   >>> >Was NYC really like that then or was the writer and Hollywood just trying   
   to push the homosexual agenda   
   >>> I moved their in the early 1980s. Taught in public schools, and a   
   >>> business school very near Times Square.   
   >>>   
   >>> This was towards the end of the NYC scene you saw in "Midnight   
   >>> Cowboy", but 42nd Street and Times Square were as squalid as you saw   
   >>> in the film. I lived a fairly wild lifestyle in those days even   
   >>> thought I was a teacher. And I was young.   
   >>>   
   >>> Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became the mayor in 1994, and he started   
   >>> cleaning the area up. I had moved away in the late 1980s due to   
   >>> burnout.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't know anything about the "homosexual agenda", but you could   
   >>> find whatever you wanted, and you didn't have to look too far.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Normalizing gay for pay by straight dudes.   
   >   
   >Did you ever read Al Goldstein's "Screw Magazine"?  More in the form   
   >of a tabloid newspaper.  Came out weekly.   
   >   
   >Pages and pages of names and photos offering all sorts of more-or-less   
   >perverted sexual fantasies - and just one easy phone call away.   
   >   
   >(Wiki):  Obituary   
   >Goldstein was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "a   
   >cartoonishly vituperative amalgam of Borscht Belt comic, free-range   
   >social critic and sex-obsessed loser who seemed to embody a moment in   
   >New York City's cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square   
   >in the 1960s and ‘70s.   
      
   "Continuing Education":   
      
   A couple of months ago, for old time's sake, I sent away for a copy   
   from a seller on eBay.   
      
   October 31, 1988, fifty-five pages:   
      
   (I can't fit the entire page on the scanner)   
      
   TV Guide:   
      
   https://ibb.co/6nstDS5   
      
      
   Gay Baths:   
      
   https://ibb.co/FWmz3X3   
      
   Other pages:   
      
   Hell's Belles (S&M)   
      
   Straight sex.   
      
   Enjoy, What's your passion?   
      
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