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• W611383116 abstract "JEAN-FRANCOIS VERNAY: Do you regard yourself as a activist?CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS: There is a struggle I had in believing that maybe my political activism should be my work, that my writings are in a sense my activism. But because I do come from a Left communist political heritage I also see engagement in the political process as activism. In terms of the specific phrase activist, if I am an activist I am an activist that happens to be homosexual. I think there is a difference between these two statements, a activist presumes that my activism is predicated on my sexual identity and desires and I think that my activism is partly informed by that but it's also informed by a whole range of other questions and positions. Given that conservatism of the culture I found myself in at the momentand we have been under an incredibly right-wing government since 1996 now-it is very important that I see myself as a Left activist.J-FV: What is your definition of a man?CT: I think a man is a creation of modernity; he is largely but not always urban or influenced by urban modern industrial culture. He is someone who has been informed by politics or by commercial culture, or forms of aesthetics and representations in coming to an understanding of himself. I'm saying that because there is a difference between being and being homosexual. I was recently in Jordan for example. It's much easier to say he's gay in France, in Australia or in America; it's much more difficult to understand that in the Middle East or in Africa.J-FV: Is it difficult because they feel they cannot come out as gay?CT: I think that coming out is part of the process, of the history of being gay. Even if you haven't come out in a place like Melbourne, you are in the sense that you understand that you have a relationship to the process of coming out. You may not choose to come out, but in choosing not to come out, you come to an understanding of your gayness. I think, going back fifteen years, you might still have that homosexual desire and slept with men, but the notion of coming out would not have been integrated in your psychology. The relationship between coming out and being is a historical one, not a natural one.J-FV: How was Loaded perceived by the queer community? Did it differ from the heterosexual's reception of the novel?CT: I think that what happened with Loaded was that it was of its time. Ten years before, it would have been published by an independent queer press and not by a company like Random House. It said something about the changes in the arena of sexuality. Because it was written from the perspective of a second generation Greek, it was not only understood as a novel, it was also understood as a work of multicultural Australia, and I think this is what it gave its certain urgency, if you like. But it was of its time in the sense that the publishing and reception of Loaded would not have been possible if it had not been for the work of a whole range of and lesbian activists, but also a whole range of multicultural and anti-racist activists in the 1970s. Obviously a reader would probably have a different response than a straight reader. Likewise, a from Italian background would have a very different relationship to the novel than an Anglo-Saxon reader.J-FV: Do you feel you have toned down homophobic violence in your novel, as compared to the added episode at the police station in the movie?CT: When Loaded was optioned to become a film, I realized that it would have to be Ana Kokkinos's version of the novel. I think she was more interested in the social questions. I was much more interested in the internationalization of homophobia, how that works. And Ana, partly because she's female, was primarily interested in that social dimension of homophobic violence. And it's just a different emphasis that comes from artistic imaginations, and so I see Head On as a completely different work from Loaded. …" @default.
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