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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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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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WE TEND TO FORGET that Andy Warhol was a writer, sort of. During his lifetime, he published several books, notably a: A Novel (1968), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A…More

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            In 1871, prominent Boston surgeon Henry Bigelow built a summer home on the west end of Tuckernuck Island, a home he called “Tuckanuck” (spelling the name of the cottage the way the locals pronounced the name of the island itself). The building was rustic and isolated, without indoor plumbing or gaslight, but sea breezes provided a welcome break from Boston’s stifling summer heat. The home was eventually inherited by Henry’s only child, William Sturgis Bigelow, who set about turning it into a summer retreat for a very different sort of family.

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