Canada & New York (1977)
The first finger that beckoned me across the Atlantic was not American but Canadian. A woman's voice spoke to me over the telephone.
'Will you come to Toronto?' she asked coolly.
'When?'
'Well, now, actually.'
'For how long?'
'Just for the day.'
I went a fortnight later and stayed a day and a half.
The main purpose of my visit to Canada was to be seen and heard talking about The Naked Civil Servant which had recently been shown there.
Before I had fully unpacked, I received a telephone call from the Toronto office of my paperback publisher. It was the caller's intention to whisk me the following morning in and out of various radio stations. . . I was taken to four small radio stations in one day. These brief interviews were much as I had expected. . .Between these appointments we managed to wedge in several large meals and a visit to a paper called the Body Politic. This periodical is the gay voice of Toronto. As its name implies, it is more militant than, say, Gay News but it is determined rather than strident.
'Will you come to Toronto?' she asked coolly.
'When?'
'Well, now, actually.'
'For how long?'
'Just for the day.'
I went a fortnight later and stayed a day and a half.
The main purpose of my visit to Canada was to be seen and heard talking about The Naked Civil Servant which had recently been shown there.
Before I had fully unpacked, I received a telephone call from the Toronto office of my paperback publisher. It was the caller's intention to whisk me the following morning in and out of various radio stations. . . I was taken to four small radio stations in one day. These brief interviews were much as I had expected. . .Between these appointments we managed to wedge in several large meals and a visit to a paper called the Body Politic. This periodical is the gay voice of Toronto. As its name implies, it is more militant than, say, Gay News but it is determined rather than strident.