Myra Breckinridge

…to Brooklyn or Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge can expect little objection, on the part of either publisher or police, to language or subject matter totally unacceptable, under the obscenity laws then operating, in 1922, when Ulysses was first published. This is certainly true of America, if not of Ireland or…

Another success was the comedy Myra Breckinridge (1968; film 1970), in which Vidal lampooned both transsexuality and contemporary American culture.