The Lost Commandment

About the Book

In the sybaritic "gay" culture of the last Quarter of the last Century John Paul Hudson aka John Francis Hunter became a veritable poster boy for a campaign of pleasure and unbridled sexuality, in vague anticipation of a socio-political revolution that he, down-deep, suspected would never come. Eventual radical exploration of his psycho-sexual world and that of the homo-male population of America became his own act of revolution -- resulting in what he thinks of as a revolutionary handbook, THE LOST COMMANDMENT, How to be Gay in the 21st Century. In this book Hudson presents a compelling journey for study, from the glamour of Hollywood that limits, to a place of freedom without end in sight, and, particularly, to a freshly defined "gay" liberation. Far from being over, he posits that the liberationist movement for homo-males is -- like that of the whole human race described by the poet Robert Browning -- only in its "infancy." In this he is in accord with the British poet James Kirkup, whom he quotes in his ultimate essay. His is an advanced vision of what he terms an Inevitability -- and must be experienced with him essay-by-essay, voluntarily step-by-step, occasionally exercise-by-exercise, with side looks about us at where homo-males have stood and presently stand vis a vis the economy, marriage, child-bearing, competitive sports, war and genocide and all the other heterosexual/hetero-homosexual legacies of humankind.

About the Author

From professional entertainer (cabaret revue, stock, TV voice-overs & narrations) to political activist (Gay Activists Alliance, the Mattachine Society); from novelist (Superstar Murder?) & journalist (Gay, The Advocate, NewsWest, GaysWeek) to highly visible fixture in the corporate structure (Time Inc. & Time Warner); to lyricist-librettist ("May the Force Be With You," A WomanSong & What's In A Name) and sometime mystic (this book & the Kingdom Science Society), Hudson-Hunter has been over the road, & is now headed hell- (or, maybe, heaven-) bent down a new-old one