Bob Kanefsky interview cont'd

One in ten

“One in Ten” is sort of a science-fiction song, set in a future Earth where all gay people (or the men, at least) were killed off in some kind of disaster a few generations before. The fallacy of that is pointed out in the title. It's obviously a thinly-veiled comment, not on the future, but on what it must have been like to grow up in the middle of the last century. I caught the edges of that time myself. The implication that "Halli Wood" is a ghost town because too many of the creative talent mysteriously disappeared at the same time as the queer people did is a little heavy-handed, but I wanted to exaggerate to make a point.