A few decades ago, researching something else, I stumbled upon a bit of history that had long been silenced, a tale that may be one of the oddest gay American love stories of the early 20th century. In his day, Ludwig Lewisohn (1882–1955) was hailed as a popular and prolific novelist as well as a cultural and literary critic. He became one of his era’s most prominent intellectual spokesmen for Jewish and Zionist causes and was a founding faculty member of Brandeis University. George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) gained fame as a poet, memoirist, and editor of a national magazine, with friends including Theodore Roosevelt.