On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 04:10 PM, hotlove666 wrote:

> That's why I prefaced my question by saying that it would be silly
> to be gender-blind in this case - it's not like joining a gun club. My
> apologies if my question offended anyone, but it's an issue I
> hope will receive honest discussion - Serge's comment about
> American Friend was not made casually!

Daney also had comments about being gay and being a cinephile (forgive
the rough translation):

"The cinema, it is childhood, not adolescence. It is a feeling much
more intense, carefree and serious, not to belong to the world, or to
be tolerated there of extreme accuracy. One knows, as of the first
entry at the primary school, in the playground, that there are people
with whom one will not be buddies and others with which one will make a
band with three or four in a corner: they will be the introverts,
perhaps later the homosexual ones - that was the case for me - in fact
the film enthusiasts. Obviously, they will not divide their treasure.
They erudite that they belong to another version of the world or the
mankind. It is not to flee. I never fled. When one is adolescent, kid,
there is full with ways of fleeing, in the fantastic one, the science
fiction, in a better world. The Utopias, police or nuns, never
interested me because I do not have any imagination. I find the world
such as it is formidable. And I find formidable that one let to me live
it without losing too many feathers there, because I did there about
what I wanted. Our idea, it was: 'There will be this world, but it
finally will be lived.' Here is the fuel of my cinephilia."

I like this quote a lot. Of course it doesn't only talk about him being
gay.

On the subject of women cinephiles, this has been explored numerous
times in That Other Group, and for good reason, too. Currently there
are only one or two active female members in a group of 126. I think
discussing this fact is unavoidable for such a large group, but it
would be anyway if the group were still in the 30-40 people range, as
we are.