# Help me identify this gay fiction

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-gay-fiction/790319>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-gay-fiction/790319 "2017-07-01T23:45:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-gay-fiction/790319/1 "2017-07-01T23:45:00Z")

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This is pretty obscure. But the forum has come through on some long shots for me before, so here goes.

Sometime around 1992 or so I picked up a collection of gay-themed writing in a book store and flipped through it. A piece that caught my eye was a faux memoir by John Wayne on his secret crush on director John Ford. A line I remember was when Ford said something like, “You know what I think, Duke?” and Duke answered, “That we should get hitched?”

Well, right now I’m on a Ford/Duke binge and remembered that and would love to find it again.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-gay-fiction/790319/2 "2017-07-03T04:06:37Z")

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Got no idea, but damn, that’s funny!

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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-gay-fiction/790319/3 "2017-12-13T13:15:42Z")

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Bumping once for just one more long shot.