In his new book Vicious and Immoral, John Gilbert McCurdy reports on at least one case of child abuse whose details are still sickening to read about. And then there were the class resentments that the “subalterns” (anyone below the rank of captain) felt vis-à-vis the officers who outranked them.
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“‘FETCH A TOWEL,’ he called, ‘and come on!’” So begins Cyril and George’s steamy swim in D. H. Lawrence’s first all-male erotic scene, which is found in his debut novel, The White Peacock.
MoreDalí and Lorca met briefly at the opening of Lorca’s Doña Rosita the Spinster in 1935. They told a journalist: “We haven’t seen each other in seven years but it seems like we never stopped talking.”
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While Bernstein welcomed Richard Romney to Tanglewood, Felicia Montealegre (his fiancée) had to force her way in.
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Windham met Campbell at the studio of artist Paul Cadmus. Brimming with charm and wit, they were friends wth the leading writers of the day.
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Byron went on to have a yearlong affair with a Greek-born French teenager named Nicolo Giraud when he moved to Athens.
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In late 19th-century America, most physicians shared Dr. Monroe’s revulsion at the very idea of same-sex activity, but an enlightened few noted that in Europe things were beginning to change, and they asked their fellow physicians to reconsider their loathing.
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It was Evelyn Hooker who pointed out that defining homosexuality as a “mental illness” was based on an untested assumption.
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Harry Benjamin spearheaded the medicalization and the legitimization of transgender health care.
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Developing the bomb was not the only secret that Schwob was harboring. There was also the matter of his sexuality—something of an open secret.
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