ジョン・ロス・ボウイさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ジョン・ロス・ボウイInstagram)「Alan Fleisig was my high schools drama teacher - here’s a sidebar about him from an article about my high school that appeared in New York Magazine. He directed the schools productions of Guys & Dolls, Oklahoma, How to Succeed and Fiddler (the last of which I served on as assistant stage manager - contrary to popular misconception I have never played Motel the tailor). Fleisig was a character - funny, clever, occasionally vicious - and closeted to his students. All of my teachers were. My high school was in Chelsea - fucking CHELSEA- and yet all the teachers had to be “confirmed bachelors” or “mysteriously still single.” Fleisig was among the least obvious, but still he hid behind jokes about ‘girlfriends’ and kept his private life very private. His directing was fierce and specific and so were his classes - I never set foot on stage in HS, but it was in his classes I first read Hamlet, Siddhartha, A Separate Peace, and the Three Theban Plays. Fleisig had a sturdy ego, and insisted we write his name on top of our homework because “I like to see it in print.” I couldn’t help but fuck with him so I’d write “the superdef Mr. Fleisig” or the “always chillin’ never illin’ Mr. Fleisig.” It was, after all, 1988. When he signed my yearbook that June, he wrote “Save some superlatives for next year.” There wasn’t a next year - he was out on medical leave when we returned in September, and by November (?) he was gone. They told us cancer, but a lot of us suspected that those persistent little “shaving cuts” he’d covered up were KS lesions and we were right. I wonder what it would be like to be Alan Fleisig now - not just with the advancement in AIDS treatment but just the general hard-won acceptance in some places - my son’s teacher can keep a picture of her girlfriend on her desk and it goes unremarked. I know there are still people who would keep the LGBTQ community silent, but they’re going to lose. “The world only spins forward.” Happy #pridemonth.」6月2日 8時43分