Rose Cleveland: The gay first lady wrote love letters to her longtime partner - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• MY AR BOY : GAY LOVE LETTERS THROUGH THE CENTURI
• A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.
• GAY LOVE LETTERS & OTHER SENTIMENTS

MY AR BOY : GAY LOVE LETTERS THROUGH THE CENTURI

Margaret’s love letters to Ruth, posthumoly gathered To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead (public library) — which also gave Mead’s prcient posn on homosexualy — are a thg of absolute, soul-stirrg bety, on par wh such famed epistolary romanc as those between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Geia O’Keeffe and Aled Stieglz, Henry Miller and Anaïs N, and Jean-Pl Sartre and Simone Bevoir.

From the wonrful 1998 anthology My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuri (public library) — a diverse llectn of missiv verg the universali of romantic love, om longg and fatuatn to jealoy and rejectn to tenrns and loyalty — the rrponnce of Beat Generatn godfather Allen Gsberg and the poet Peter Orlovsky.

Burroughs, another in of lerature’s gay subculture:. Among morny’s most tragic victims of our shameful past is Osr Wil, who was imprisoned multiple tim for his “crime” of homosexualy, driven to bankptcy and exile, and fally succumbed to an untimely ath. Revolutnary Love, The Gay Love Letters of Alexanr Haton, Excerpts om My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri (1998), eded by Rictor Norton.

A GAY FIRST LADY? Y, WE’VE ALREADY HAD ONE, AND HERE ARE HER LOVE LETTERS.

My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri (Leyland Publitns, first edn Febary 1, 1998). My Dear Boy is an anthology of gay. and bat about "marriage" and "fily" gay.

GAY LOVE LETTERS & OTHER SENTIMENTS

A full troductn charts the survival of gay love letters. Introductn: Gay Love Letters through the Centuri. Gay men -- Corrponnce, Gay men's wrgs, Love letters.