Gorgeous George? I want to speak well of you on a revealing interview with George Michael ["All the Way Out" January 19] Unfortunately.

Gorgeous George?

I want to speak well of you on a revealing interview with George Michael ["All the Way Out" January 19] Unfortunately, he is the entire poster child for the religious right. While he admits to having single a few gay friends, he characterizes gay men as promiscuous, incapable of monogamy, unstable in relationships, and lacking in sufficient nurturance to parent children. It appears he does thus to justify his own excesse and conflicted self-image. His description of the great justice and intimacy between him and his partner reads a fate more like codependence and enabling behavior. Michael urgencys to stop projecting his internalized homophobia, procure out of denial and into restoration and stop giving ammunition to our enemies.

Jeff Feathergill Helena, Mont

I am a 24-year-old straight female and have admired Michael since I was 10 years advanced in years Your article was one of the best I've read about him in years. It is likewise nice to see how happy he finally assumes to be now that he is publicly out, has his greatest hits CD in stores, and has a remarkably cute and caring boyfriend. I am pleased that Michael handled his bathroom incident with of that kind dignity and humor--that's the George we have reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point to know and love!

Ally Sweet, fresh Orleans, La.

To blame the police or the pres for his arrest proposes that Michael is a victim Not likely. He did what he did for the thrill, the shame, maybe smooth the publicity. In the proces he reinforced the stereotype that gays are sexual deviants who food upon innocent straight people. The solitary victim I see is the gay community.

Mitch Hagan, Indianapolis, Ind.

I'm not convinced Michael doesn't still think of himself as bisexual. It's entirely possible the be pleased with of his life may inflect out to be a woman. calm if he ends up having, as he in the way that amusingly put it, "a retro hetero" gravity I will continue to admire him for his candor and straightforwardness. What an crack role model he has become!

Don Charles, Kansas City, Mo

I must admit to having had a Michael [i]affiche[/i] in my room as a teenager. It was in no degree a tip-off as to my confess sexuality because my mother and sister were as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but just as fond of him as I privily was. Michael has become alone more handsome with age, and his abilities continue to entertain. Perhaps it is his talent that readys his jealous and unrelenting accusers.

Mycah Wells, Charleston, SC

The daily grill

In her hectoring interview of Andrew Sullivan, Sarah Schulman came across as Jane Fonda at her doctrinaire loopiest ["Man in the of high temperature Seat," January 19]. Schulman thinks Sullivan has been "select at the dominant group." Where does this dominant form into groups meet? In the cafeteria of The just discovered York Times? In Trent Lott's basement? The implication that Sullivan is in some way perceived as a safer, gentler version of "real" gay population (i.e., Schulman and her pals) is ludicrous. Sullivan is published widely and regularly for his qualities of lucidity, passion, and wit. Period.

Michael Neville, Milwaukee, Wis.

I was stunn through Sullivan's Victorian attitude that "people who have sex outside of regard with affection are operating from a place of grave self-esteem." Just because some of us do not subscribe to monogamy does not mean we are unable to frame meaningful emotional relationships. And when he says "the gay motion was hijacked in the '70s" and that Stonewall "was a diversion from our capacity to integrate into society," he is really preaching assimilation and advocating that we remain in the closet

Robert Schanke, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

Schulman's interview with Sullivan revealed more about her personal axes to grind than it did about his views. Her accusatory line of questioning about his considerations on abortion and her cynicism about for what cause [i]or[/i] reason he has become such a prominent gay spokesperson struck me as inappropriate. I would have liked to hear more about his work not another rehash of "assimilation v liberation."

Dorie Clark, Somerville, Mass.

Kudos to Schulman for pointing public that Sullivan's political stance depicts an attack on the hard-won gains of second- and third-wave feminist imagination For a gay man to fail to think about the relationship between the oppression of women and the oppression of odds is a terrific error.

Carol Gues Bellingham, Wash.

Schulman has no right to indict Sullivan or anyone other for choosing a different means of attempting to force change. Schulman may indeed believe that protesting in St Paul's makes same-sex marriage more palatable to straight America. The straight Americans I know agree with Sullivan: so a claim is ludicrous.

Tony Phillips, Chicago, Ill.

From too gay to ex-gay As an revealed 19-year-old lesbian attending graduate academy on a campus with undivided other openly gay student, I lay the foundation of Michelangelo Signorile's article "What Happened to Gay?" [January 19] a welcome single in kind Since coming to this train I have repeatedly been informed by the agency of well-meaning fellow students that I am "too gay" and that I would be more popular if I would "tone things down a bit." I tolerated this advice, sole to be informed by the other publicly gay student that I am "not gay enough."