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- SWEATER WEATHERSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"HENRY JAM IS SUPER GAY","SCRIPTN":"HELLO IENDS-- THIS WEEK\U2019S THURSDAY LETTER IS REALLY A FRIDAY LETTER. FIRST SOME NEWS: MY SHORT STORY \U201CAS THOUGH THAT WERE LOVE\U201D APPEARS THE NEWT ISSUE OF AMERIN SHORT FICTN, ALONGSI SOME TLY SPECTATOR STORI. GO CHECK OUT. I\U2019M REALLY THRILLED TO HAVE PLACED A STORY AT THAT JOURNAL. IT\U2019S BEEN A GOAL OF ME EVER SCE I STARTED SENDG STORI OUT. THEY\U2019VE PUBLISHED SOME OF MY FAVORE WRERS, AND SO THIS IS A REAL DREAM E TE FOR ME.","IMAGE":[],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-16T16:30:51+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-16T16:30:51+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"BRANDON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"BRANDON TAYLOR IS THE THOR OF REAL LIFE AND FILTHY ANIMALS. HIS WRG HAS APPEARED THE NEW YORK TIM, THE NEW YORKER ONLE, THE CUT, O: THE OPRAH MAGAZE, AND ELSEWHERE. ","INTIFIER":"ER:13679","IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"SWEATER WEATHER","URL":","SCRIPTN":"SAYS ABOUT LERATURE, CULTURE, AND SO MANY FEELGS.","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:14343","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTHENRY JAM IS SUPER COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERHENRY JAM IS SUPER GAY
- REMEMBERG THE GREAT GAY AMERIN WRER, HENRY JAM, ON HIS 180TH BIRTHDAY
SWEATER WEATHERSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"HENRY JAM IS SUPER GAY","SCRIPTN":"HELLO IENDS-- THIS WEEK\U2019S THURSDAY LETTER IS REALLY A FRIDAY LETTER. FIRST SOME NEWS: MY SHORT STORY \U201CAS THOUGH THAT WERE LOVE\U201D APPEARS THE NEWT ISSUE OF AMERIN SHORT FICTN, ALONGSI SOME TLY SPECTATOR STORI. GO CHECK OUT. I\U2019M REALLY THRILLED TO HAVE PLACED A STORY AT THAT JOURNAL. IT\U2019S BEEN A GOAL OF ME EVER SCE I STARTED SENDG STORI OUT. THEY\U2019VE PUBLISHED SOME OF MY FAVORE WRERS, AND SO THIS IS A REAL DREAM E TE FOR ME.","IMAGE":[],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-08-16T16:30:51+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-08-16T16:30:51+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"BRANDON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"BRANDON TAYLOR IS THE THOR OF REAL LIFE AND FILTHY ANIMALS. HIS WRG HAS APPEARED THE NEW YORK TIM, THE NEW YORKER ONLE, THE CUT, O: THE OPRAH MAGAZE, AND ELSEWHERE. ","INTIFIER":"ER:13679","IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"SWEATER WEATHER","URL":","SCRIPTN":"SAYS ABOUT LERATURE, CULTURE, AND SO MANY FEELGS.","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:14343","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTHENRY JAM IS SUPER COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERHENRY JAM IS SUPER GAY
He rmed the fay when a scholar he met at a nference exprsed an tert Jam’s homoerotic rrponnce. Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick beme the bible for gay studi and queer theory universi. It proposed an entire new way of readg Jam as a gay wrer whose efforts to rema the closet gave him his style and may, fact, have been his real subject, all the more prent for beg secret and submerged.
In other words, was Henry Jam homosexual? The standard life of Jam, Leon El’s five-volume bgraphy, was published a time, primarily the 1950’s and 1960’s, when ratnal treatment of homosexualy was still nsired non-circumspect, so El is nearly mum on the subject.
In his revised, abridged versn of the same work, published the 1980’s, he fally acknowledg the possibily of Jam’s homosexualy but do so wh obv reticence. Still El was sufficiently fascated by Jam’s sex life to mend an article by gay wrer and cric Richard Hall The New Republic which alt wh Jam’s sexualy and that drew the ncln that Jam harbored an tense fixatn on his olr brother William which borred on the erotic. Rowse’s idsyncratic, biblgraphy-ee, but very entertag Homosexuals History: A Study of Ambivalence Society, Lerature, and The Arts (1977), whose tle pretty much says all.
REMEMBERG THE GREAT GAY AMERIN WRER, HENRY JAM, ON HIS 180TH BIRTHDAY
Among them are John Bradley’s Henry Jam and Homo-Erotic Dire (1998) and Eric Haralson’s Henry Jam and Queer Morny (2003).
The above books, and others, study the way homosexualy fs to both Jam’s life and his work. It is unclear jt how far Jam’s relatnships wh the men went, whether or not they tly crossed the bounds to the homosexual. While he may have been homo-erotilly oriented, his greatt love no doubt remaed his work.