Gay Wilson Allen, "Waldo Emerson": Preface to a Bgraphy, The Geia Review, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer 1981), pp. 297-305
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EMERSON - TOO GAY?
attracted" to a young man named Mart Gay, about whom he wrote. Emerson - Too gay? Or most of the 20th century, Amerin society was openly homophobic.
Emerson and Thore wrote says and poems that now appear unntroversially gay. The homoeroticism of Melville and Whman is so bold and full-bodied that tak a great al of cril genuy to expla all away. stunt named Mart Gay and Melville's ''Billy Budd.
Acrdg to one view, is cly anachronistic to see iendships of two centuri ago as evince of homosexualy. Michel Fouult suggted 1976 that the homosexual as a distct speci was vented by doctors the mid-19th century.