She tries to take down the macho patriarchy of Hollywood. The book made Vidal an early champion for sexual liberation.Ī later satirical novel “Myra Breckenridge” (1968) described the exploits of Myron who undergoes sexual reassignment, and becomes Myra. At the time, some critics were so offended by the subject, they refused to read the book, let alone review it. In “The City and the Pillar” (1948), one of Vidal’s earliest novels, he wrote about a young man coming to accept he was homosexual. Vidal famously had feuds with Truman Capote and Norman Mailer as well. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered.”īuckley later regretted using “queer” but still disliked that Vidal was an “evangelist for bisexuality”.īuckley was not his only literary opponent. Vidal’s lifelong opponent William F Buckley once said to him on National TV: He was also a self described bisexual or pansexual. Gore Vidal was an writer, a political pundit and one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th Century.
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