>Plus, he gave Jack Kerouac a blowjob, which is pretty damn cool in
>and of itself!
Vidal says it was the other way 'round. He said Kerouac gave him a "pro forma" blow job. Then Vidal turned Kerouac over and, as he reported to Allen Ginsberg, "I fucked him."
Kerouac didn't like Vidal's writing. This is from a letter he wrote to Ginsberg:
".... am now resting and getting hi and going to the movies etc. and trying to read Gore Vidal's "Judgment of Paris" which is so uglily transparent in its method, the protagonist-hero who is unqueer but all camp (with his bloody tattoo on a thigh) and craptalk, the only thing good, as Bill says, are the satirical queer scenes, especially Lord Ayres or whatever his name . . . and they expect us to like Vidal, great god.