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Green Room cover note
James Lokken
Writer, editor, San Francisco (1933-2006)I’m acquainted with Gary Kelly, the author, through his unique and fascinating web site. Over the past several years he has posted there a number of stories growing out of his extraordinary e-mail conversations with a teen-age surfer who shared with Gary the most intimate details of his life, his friendships, his angst, his doubts, his joys, his fears, his coming of age, his triumphs and his disappointments. Kyle (his name in Green Room) reveals in these conversations things about himself he could not share with his parents, his closest friends, or anyone else.
The two never met, except on the internet, and the story ends with Kyle’s tragic death in an auto accident. The conversations nevertheless transformed both of them. Kyle was tempted by drugs, suicide, and self-doubt. The e-mail conversations sustained him. Gary was given a friend closer and more intimate than any whose physical presence he has known. It’s a love story, a real one, and like much of life is more improbable than fiction.
There’s a deal of sex in this story. It will be viewed by some as pornography. I make a distinction between pornography and art. Porn is about body parts and sexual acts isolated from any context or personal relationships. Its goal is sexual arousal. Porn takes one to a fantasy world of erotic indulgence. Art is about reality, about life, about people in all their complexity, about relationships. Sexuality is a part of real life. In recent years sexuality has been treated in literature with much greater frankness and candor than it was even a generation ago. Some pornography exists in the imagination of the reader, and such readers may find it in Green Room. I find much more depth in the story than that. This is about people — real people, actually. This is not simplistic eroticism but extraordinary self-revelation by a truly amazing young man who, in struggling with the realities of his own life, is inspiring to others.
The intense sexuality of Kyle’s life is not simplistic, not stereotypically gay or straight. Kyle loves and hates, sometimes both, his various friends, each in a different way because they’re different people. At the same time he’s very involved with the world around him: the sea, the mountains, the beauty and wonder of all creation, and he feels himself part of it.
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