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Contents:
- EDWARD GOREY, FRANK O’HARA AND HARVARD’S GAY UNRGROUND
- GAY CLUB GOREY
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS GOREY
EDWARD GOREY, FRANK O’HARA AND HARVARD’S GAY UNRGROUND
His speech, body language, and cultural passns—theater, ballet, the novels of gay satirists of mor and manners such as Saki, Ronald Firbank, E.
Benson, and Ivy Compton-Burt—were a talog of stereotypilly gay tras and affi. Yet no one the almost exclively gay crowd he traveled wh ever saw him at gay bars such as the Napoleon Club or the Silver Dollar.
O’Hara, who’d had his first same-sex experience when he was 16, was nflicted about his sexual inty—all too aware of his attractn to men but gnawed by the spicn that gay men were sissi and hnted by fears of what would happen if his secret got out the nservative Irish Catholic muny where he’d grown up, Grafton, Massachetts.
GAY CLUB GOREY
Posthumoly, O’Hara would take his place on the Mount Rhmore of gay letters, but durg his Harvard years he was torn between the closeted life he was forced to live whenever he returned home and the more liberated life he lived at Harvard and Boston’s gay unrground.
Firbank, should go whout sayg, was gay. He looms large the prehistory of mp, the d sensibily that enabled gays, pre-Stonewall tim, to signal their sexualy unr the radar of mastream (read: straight) culture and, simultaneoly, to mock that culture wh tongue firmly cheek.
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS GOREY
To gay rears who uld read the subtext Firbank’s prickg w and “orchidaceo” style, as tractors lled , his prose hid his queerns pla sight. The ntent of his novels, which poked fun at bourgeois stutns such as marriage, had special meang for gay rears, too.