In speaking of his purpose, Delany states: Summary: Part one of Samuel R Delany’s Time Square Red, Times Square Blue offers a variety of anecdotes regarding Delany’s experiences on Forty-second street and Eighth Avenue including his peers’ opinions on the city’s movement in closing their frequented theaters as Delany ultimately argues that the city used the “safe sex” movement as a front for closing the businesses and allowing space for family friendly money to be spent.Īlthough Delany states in his introduction that his purpose in writing Time Square Red, Times Square Blue is to present one part, Times Square Blue, that offers anecdotes by which the reader can appreciate the more analytical Times Square Red, there are moments in the first part of his analysis where (outside of the anecdote) Delany interjects with personal concern not for society and the success of businesses, but for his own sexual lifestyle this personal investment in the subject weakens Delany’s argument by shifting the focus from the benefit of the community to the benefit of the individual.
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