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A new book about Samuel Steward, “Secret Historian” by Jt Sprg, reveals a ltle-documented strand of gay life the middle s of the 20th century.

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SEXUAL OUTLAW ON THE GAY FRONTIER

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Mrice is gay, and the book lv to his two most proment relatnships wh men. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSexual Outlaw on the Gay FrontierJuly 25, 2010 When the thor Jt Sprg fally tracked down the executor of Samuel Steward’s tate, he had no ia what this sexual outlaw and ltle-known lerary figure had left behd after his ath 1993.

So he was taken unawar by the 80 box full of drawgs, letters, photographs, sexual paraphernalia, mancripts and other ems, cludg an tograph and reliquary wh pubic hair om Rudolph Valento, a thoand-page nfsnal journal Steward created at the requt of the sex rearcher Aled Ksey, and a green metal rd talog labeled “Stud File, ” which ntaed a meticuloly documented rerd on x rds of every sexual experience and partner — Rock Hudson, Thornton Wilr, “One-eyed Sadist” — that Steward said he had had over 50 attic full of ems ntaed a secret history of a ltle-documented strand of gay life the middle s of the 20th century.

PETER ACKROYD: A SECRET HISTORY – 2,000 YEARS OF GAY LIFE LONDON

The prolific bgrapher, historian and novelist returns to faiar terrory wh a gay history of the cy * a secret history gay *

Steward’s experience stands stark ntrast to the faiar story of furtive ncealment and persecutn the perd before gay liberatn. “It was an Aladd’s ve of gay paraphernalia and rerd keepg that was vered wh dt and smelled like dog, ” said Mr.

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) This unual che is signifint bee source material om this perd is rare, said Mart Duberman, a profsor emer and founr of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi at the Graduate Center of the Cy Universy of New York. ” Many of Steward’s ntemporari — and their heirs — stroyed or hid evince of their homosexualy.

Fremson/The New York TimJason Bmann, curator of the lbian and gay llectn for the New York Public Library, said, “It’s exactly the kd of material that I nstantly have historians and the general public wantg to have.

THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN

At first he didn’t realize that some of the odd puzzle piec he happened upon even belonged to the same jigsaw bee Steward had so many inti an era when homosexualy uld land a person jail.

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