Authors: justin spring
Tags: #Gay & Lesbian, #Social Science, #College teachers - Illinois - Chicago, #Gay authors, #Literary, #Human Sexuality, #Novelists; American - 20th century, #General, #Sexology - Research - United States - History - 20th century, #Psychology, #Artists; Architects; Photographers, #Body Art & Tattooing, #Authors; American, #College teachers, #Gay authors - United States, #Steward; Samuel M, #Tattoo artists, #Pornography - United States - History - 20th century, #Novelists; American, #Gay Studies, #Authors; American - 20th century, #Education, #Art, #Educators, #Pornography, #20th century, #Tattoo artists - New York (State) - New York, #Sexology, #Poets; American, #Literary Criticism, #Poets; American - 20th century, #Biography & Autobiography, #Teaching Methods & Materials, #Biography
Souhami, Diana.
Gertrude and Alice
. London: Pandora, 1991.
Spoto, Donald.
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.
Steegmuller, Francis.
Cocteau: A Biography
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.
Stein, Gertrude.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933.
_______.
A Stein Reader
(Ulla E. Dydo, ed.). Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1993.
Stein, Gertrude, and Thornton Wilder.
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder
, Edward Burns, Ulla E. Dydo, and William Rice, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Streitmatter, Rodger, and John C. Watson. “Herman Lynn Womack: Pornographer as First Amendment Pioneer.”
Journalism History
28:56 (Summer 2002).
Tellman, William. “Chuck Arnett.”
Black Sheets
, no. 15, April 1998, pp. 39–40.
Thompson, Mark, ed.
Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice
. Boston: Alyson, 1991.
Thompson, William R. “Sex, Lies and Photographs: Letters from George Platt Lynes.” Master’s thesis, Rice University, 1997.
Toklas, Alice.
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.
_______.
Staying On Alone: The Letters of Alice B. Toklas
(Edward Burns, ed.). New York: Liveright, 1973.
_______.
What Is Remembered
. San Francisco: North Point, 1985.
Townsend, Larry.
The Leatherman’s Handbook
. San Francisco: Le Salon, 1973.
_______. “Plight of Gay Novelists: Who Gauges Market Correctly, Publishers or Writers?”
The Advocate
, August 19, 1970, p. 19.
Tripp, C.A.
The Homosexual Matrix
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
Vickers, Hugo.
Cecil Beaton: A Biography
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.
Vidal, Gore.
Palimpsest: A Memoir
. New York: Random House, 1995.
Waugh, Thomas.
Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
_______.
Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics from Before Stonewall
. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002.
Webb, Spider, with Marco Vassi.
Spider Webb’s Pushing Ink: The Fine Art of Tattooing
. New York: Fireside, 1979.
Weinberg, Martin S., and Colin J. Williams.
Male Homosexuals: Their Problems and Adaptations
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Welch, Paul. “Homosexuality in America,”
Life
, June 26, 1964, pp. 66–78.
Welham, M. G., and J. A. Welham.
Frogman Spy: The Mysterious Disappearance of Commander “Buster” Crabb
. London: W. H. Allen, 1990.
Werth, Barry.
The Scarlet Professor Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2001.
White, Edmund.
Genet: A Biography
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
_______.
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America
. New York: Dutton, 1980.
Wilde, Oscar.
De Profundis and Other Writings
. New York: Penguin, 1986.
Williams, Tennessee.
Memoirs
. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Wilson, Colin.
The Occult
. New York: Vintage, 1973.
Woody, Jack.
George Platt Lynes: Photographs, 1931–1955
. Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1980.
Young, Ian.
The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography
. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975.
6. VISUAL RECORDINGS OF STEWARD
International Tattoo Art. An interview with Samuel Steward by Michael O. Stearns, Metamorphosis Productions, 542 Chetwood Street, Oakland, California. Date of taping: August 23, 1983. A copy of this interview remains in the Steward archive.
Advocate Men Live!
Fred Bissones, director. Los Angeles: Advocate Men, 1986. Color. The most significant visual interview of Samuel M. Steward. A copy of this tape remains in the Steward Archive, gift of Douglas Martin.
Olaf Odergaard interview with Samuel Steward on behalf of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives, Natalie Barney, Edward Carpenter Library, Hollywood, California. Interview taped in December 1986. A copy of this interview remains in the Steward archive.
Rick X Talks to Sam Steward
, July 10, 1991, Berkeley, California. A sit-down interview by Rick X/Rick Shur, the New York–based producer of
The Closet Case Show
, a public access television show screened on New York cable television. A copy of this interview remains in the Steward archive.
Paris Was a Woman
(1995). Greta Schiller, director. Los Angeles: Cicada Films/Jezebel Productions. This widely released 75-minute documentary describing women artists and writers of Paris features a substantial late-life interview of Samuel Steward about his friendship with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Many people helped me with the researching and publishing of this book. The most important financial assistance came from a Guggenheim Fellowship, which helped me to begin my research; and the most important personal encouragment came to me from Paul Cadmus, who at the end of his life, even as he declined to be the subject of a biography, convinced me that his generation of writers and artists needed to be better understood.
At Brown University, I’d like to thank the John Nicholas Brown American Studies Center and the Kirk Collection, both of which helped to fund my library research in Providence. I’d also like to thank the staff of the John Hay Library and the Rockefeller Library, particularly Joyce Botelho, Rosemarie Cullen, Ron Fark, Mary Jo Kline, and Sam Streit. Tovah Reis was also most helpful. At Yale University, Tim Young proved indispensable in helping me to find my way through the Beinecke Collections and in locating letters that had otherwise been invisible to all previous researchers. He was an early and enthusiastic supporter of Sam Steward’s life story. Patricia Willis was also gently encouraging. A Beinecke research grant form Yale, meanwhile, helped offset my travel and lodging costs in New Haven.
Joseph Bean, the founder and organizer of the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, helped me immeasurably over my many years of research and in doing so became both an adviser and good friend. His successor at the Leather Archives, Rick Storer, also contributed his goodwill and expertise; so, too, did Charles “Chuck” Renslow. I would particularly like to thank Mr. Renslow for making himself available to me for interviews about his friendship with Sam Steward, and for sharing with me the extensive documentation of his life. The author Jack Rinella, a longtime associate of the Leather Archives, hosted me for a memorable evening and provided me with information about the leather community I would have found nowhere else. Douglas Martin, Steward’s former pupil at DePaul, was exceptionally warm and welcoming to me during my Chicago visits. Martin was the only person to read through the manuscript in all its many drafts. He was also kind enough to offer me a place to stay during my visit to the International Mr. Leather convention in Chicago, and in so doing he shared his lifelong knowledge of Chicago with me, as well as his firsthand accounts of life at DePaul and his later-life friendship with Steward. Both Loyola and DePaul universities, meanwhile, granted me access to their special collections archives in order to research Sam Steward’s career.
In San Francisco, Michael Williams was remarkably generous in sharing Sam’s life story and papers with me. He was an equally generous host and guide, and over the course of nearly a decade he has become a dear and valued friend. Donald Allen shared his memories of Sam Steward with me, and gave me full access to the archives of his Gray Fox Press. In Berkeley, the manuscript dealer Burton Weiss generously shared information and gave me access to his unique collections. At UC Berkeley, Bancroft special collections librarian Peter Hanff was equally welcoming. The surviving friends and acquaintances of Sam Steward in San Francisco who were kind enough to share their memories of him included Jack Fritscher, Don Ed Hardy, Kevin Killian, Bob McHenry, Paul Padgette, and Burton Weiss. Fritscher in particular helped to expand my knowledge of gay San Francisco and the unique world of
Drummer
magazine. Various other members of the GLBTQ and kink and leather communities have explaining so many things that I would otherwise never have understood; they include Guy Baldwin, Jeanne Barney, Chad Heap, Mark Hemry, Jack Frischer, Gayle Rubin, and Bill Thompson.
In Bloomington, the Kinsey Institute gave me a warm welcome. I would particularly like to thank Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Shawn Wilson, and Liana Zhou for their patience with my project. A very special thanks goes as well to Alfred Kinsey’s close associate of many years, Paul Gebhard, who candidly shared with me so many of his memories of Sam Steward and the early, pioneering years of sex research. I’d like also to thank Brenda Marston at Cornell University Library for directing me to the papers of H. Lynn Womack, and the Archives of American Art for providing information on Gertrude Abercrombie and her circle in Chicago. While I was doing my research at Boston University, George Shackel-ford kept me in good cheer and kindly gave me a place to sleep. George Platt Lynes II has graciously allowed me to quote extensively from the letters of George Platt Lynes to Samuel Steward; likewise, Tappan Wilder has kindly allowed me to quote from the unpublished letters of Thornton Wilder to Samuel Steward. In New York, Jennifer Milne provided indispensable copyediting and editorial help in the seemingly endless editing-down and revision of the manuscript, a process that lasted for more than a year.
Finding a publisher for
Secret Historian
took a good deal of effort, so I would particularly like to thank the writer Francine Maroukian for insisting that I continue my work on the book after other advisers suggested I abandon it in favor of something more commercial. I would like to thank Doug Stumpf for recommending the book proposal to Jeff Seroy; Jeff Seroy for recommending the proposal to Jonathan Galassi; and finally, and most important, Jonathan Galassi for daring to sign up what surely must have seemed to him a difficult and hard-to-sell book. Over the years his editorial comments have been invaluable; so, too, have been those of his assistant, Jesse Coleman. Charlotte Sheedy has been a supportive and enthusiastic agent for the book, very wise in the ways of contemporary publishing. David Deiss of Elysium Press offered not only his comments on the manuscript but also, miraculously, to publish the companion volume of Sam Steward’s visual works.
And my deepest thanks, as ever, go to Anthony Korner, who lived patiently with this book for nearly a decade.
The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook . Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.
AAU (Amateur Athletic Union)
Abercrombie, Gertrude
Abramson, Ben
absolution
Accu-Jac
“Ace in the Hole” (Andros)
Ackerley, J. R.
Adams, LeRoy
Advocate
African Americans,
see
blacks
Against the Grain
(
A Rebours
; Huysmans)
A-Hunting We Will Go!
(Steward),
see Parisian Lives
AIDS
Alcoholics Anonymous
Algeria
Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
(Toklas)
Allen, Donald
Altamont Raceway
Alyson Publications
American Association of University Professors
American Ballet Theater
Amigo
Amory, Richard (Richard Love)
Anchor Tattoo Shop
“Ancient Art of Professor Phillip Sparrow, The,”
Anderson, Margaret
Anderson, Marie
Anderson, Sherwood
André (hustler); pseudonyms of (Dédé Java)
Andrews, Clarence “Clare,”
Andrews, Scott
Andros, Phil (pseud. of SMS),
see
Phil Andros fiction
Angels on the Bough
(Steward)
Angel That Troubled the Waters, The
(Wilder)
Anger, Kenneth
antiwar protests
Antonio (hustler)
Apartment in Athens
(Wescott)
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Arcadie
A Rebours
(
Against the Grain
; Huysmans)
Argus Bookshop
Aristotle
armed services, U.S., homosexuals in
Arnett, Chuck
“Arrangement in Black and White” (Andros)
Art Institute of Chicago
Arvin, Newton
“As a Wife Has a Cow a Love Story” (Stein)
Athenia
, S.S.
Athletic Model Guild
Atlas, James
Austen, Roger
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The
(Stein)
Autre Sommeil, L’
(Green)
Avery, Dick
“Baby Tiger” (Stames)
Bachir
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
(Steward)
Bahnc, Salcia
Baldwin, Guy
Ballets Russes
Ballet Theater,
see
American Ballet Theater
Barber, Samuel
barbiturates
“Bargain Hunters, The” (Steward)
Barger, Elsie
Barger, Ralph “Sonny,”
Barker, George
Barnes, Ike
Barney, Jeanne
Barney, Natalie
Baron, Hal
Barr, James (James Barr Fugate)
Basket II (dog)
Bate, Neel (Blade)
Bates, Bill
Baudelaire, Charles
Baudoin, Mme.
Bauer, Bert
BDSM;
see also
sadomasochism
Beach, Sylvia
Bean, Joseph
Beardsley, Aubrey
Bearers of Evil Tidings, The
(Lecomte de Nuoy)
Beaton, Cecil
Beats
Beausoleil, Bobby
Bell-Bottom Trousers
(Steward)
Bellows, Ruffian, Jr.
Below the Belt and Other Stories
(Andros)
Benson, Roger
Benzedrine
Bérard, Christian “Bébé,”
Berbich, Bob
Berkeley, Calif.: Earth People’s Park in; SMS’s bungalow in; violent crime in
Berkeley Free Speech movement
Berkeley Gazette
Berkeley Police Department
Berullo, Bob
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
(Freud)
Bilignin, France
Bingleman, Audrien
Bishop, Donald (pseud. of SMS)
Black Panther Party
blacks: murder of Herman Cartun by; robbery at Anchor Tattoo Shop by; SMS’s friendships with; SMS’s sexual encounters with; SMS’s sympathy for the plight of gay; SMS’s assaults by; SMS’s gang rape by
“Blacks and Mr. Bennett, The” (“Sea Change” Andros)
Blaine, Anne
Blake, William
Blow for Blow
,
see Greek Ways
Blumenthal, Eli
bodybuilding competitions
“Boke of Phyllyp Sparrowe, The” (Skelton)
Boni and Liveright
Boston University, special collections library at
Boudreault, Roland
Bourges, France
Boyd, J. P.
Boys in Blue, The
(
San Francisco Hustler
; Andros)
Boys Town
“Boys Will Be Boys” (Raven)
Bozart: The Bi-Monthly Poetry Review
Bradbury, Bruce
Brando, Dorothy “Dode,”
Brando, Marlon, Sr.
Braque, Georges
Brash, Jeff
Brashin, Jim
Brest, France
Breton, André
Brian, J. (J. Brian Donahue); arrests of; collaboration with Steward; escort and brothel business of; friendship with Steward; photography by; pornographic filmmaking by; provider of hustlers for Steward; publication of work by Steward
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
(Wilder)
Bronski, Michael
Brooklyn Citizen
brothels, male
Broughton, James
Brown University, John Hay Special Collections Library at
Bulganin, Nikolai
“Bull Market in America, The” (Bishop)
Bunin, Ivan
Buonfiglio, Tab
Burckhardt, Rudolf (Rudolf Jung)
Burns, Edward M.
Burroughs, William S.
Butts, Mary
Cabell, James Branch
Cadmus, Paul
“Calamus” poems (Whitman)
California, University of, at Berkeley, Bancroft Library at
Cammell, Donald
Caplowitz, Bob
Caravaggio Shawl, The
(Steward)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carroll College
Cartun, Herman
Cathedral, The
(Huysmans)
Catholicism; SMS’s conversion to; SMS’s rejection of; of Toklas; of Virginia Harper (sister)
Cavafy, Constantin
Cave, Thomas (pseud. of SMS)
Caves du Vatican, Les
(Gide)
Caxton Publishers
120 Journées de Sodome
(Sade)
Cerf, Bennett
Chance, Ervin
Chandler, Raymond
Chant d’Amour, Un
Chapters from an Autobiography
(Steward)
Charters, Ann
Chevalier, Maurice
Chicago, Ill.: homosexual scene in; Peterson-Schuessler murder panic in; sailors in; SMS’s affection for; SMS’s apartments in; SMS’s tattoo parlors in,
see
Steward, Samuel M., tattooing; SMS’s teaching appointments in; South State Street in; youth gangs in
Chicago, University of
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project
Chicago Police Department; shakedowns by
Chicago Tribune
Christenson, Fritz
Churchill, Bob
City and the Pillar, The
(Vidal)
City of Night
(Rechy)
Civic (Lyric) Opera House, Chicago
Clark, Johnny
cocaine
Cocteau, Jean
Cocteau
(Steegmuller)
Cohen, Jacob
“Collar for Achilles, A” (Andros)
Collins, Bill
Color of Darkness
(Purdy)
Columbus, Ohio, boarding house of SMS’s aunts in
Columbus Dispatch
Columbus
Sunday Star
Commonweal
Communists, communism
Comstock Law
confession
Congress, U.S.
Connolly, Cyril
Conrad, Doda
Conrad, Joseph
Contemporary Verse
Cory, Donald Webster (Edward Sagarin)
Corydon
(Gide)
Costello, Charlie
Coulbaut, J. Lambreghts
Count Bruga
(Hecht)
Cowley, Malcolm
Crabb, Lionel Kenneth Philip “Buster,”
Craine, Art
Crane, Hart
Creighton, Bobbie
criminals, sexual appeal of
Crowley, Aleister
Crowley, John W.
Culoz, France
Cummings, E. E.
Curtis, Emmy; illness and death of; SMS’s sexual affair with
Cuttoli, Marie
Dahm, Robert
Dalí, Salvador
Dallas News
Dalven, Rae
Daniel-Rops, Henri (Henri Petiot)
Darwinism
da Silva, Jorge
Davis, Brad
Davis and Elkins College
Dax, Augusta
Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
(Steward)
“Death and the Black Masseur” (Williams)
“Death and the Tattoo” (Andros)
Decure, Daniel
Delarue, Jacques
Delaunay, Jacques
Dellenback, Bill
Dempsey, John T.
Demuth, Charles
Denneny, Michael
DePaul University; SMS fired from
De Profundis
(Wilde)
Derain, André
“Detachment: A Way of Life” (Steward)
Diaghilev, Sergei
Dieterle, William
Dietzel, Amund
Different Light bookstore, ix-x
Divided Path, The
(Kent)
D.O.C. (pseud. of SMS)
Doll’s House, A
(Ibsen; Wilder, trans.)
Donahue, J. Brian,
see
Brian, J.
Don’t Call Me by My Right Name
(Purdy)
Douglas, Lord Alfred
Douglas, Scott
Down There
(
Là-Bas
; Huysmans)
Doyle, Peter
Drayton, Michael
Drum
Drummer
du Bos, Charles
Duke, Michael
Dunbar, William
Duncan, Isadora
Dunham, Katherine
Earth People’s Park
Echaurren, Roberto Matta
Eddy, Clement John “Pop,”
Egeria
Eiffel Tower
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Ellis, Havelock
Embarcadero YMCA, San Francisco
Encounter
En Route
(Huysmans)
Eos
escort services
Étienne (artistic pseud. of Orejudos),
see
Orejudos, Domingo Stephan
Etude sur le Langage Populaire
(Nisard)
Everybody’s Autobiography
(Stein)
evolutionary theory
Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
(Cowley)
Fairbanks, Harold
Faithfull, Marianne
Fall of Valor, The
(Jackson)
Fancy Free
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
FaŸ, Bernard
FBI
Ferguson, Larry
Finale: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
(Nava, ed.)
Fini, Leonor
Finistère
(Peters)
Fireworks
First Time Round
Fitzgerald, Roy (Rock Hudson)
Flanner, Janet
Fokine, Michel
Ford, Charles Henri
Four: More Than Money
France, homosexuals in; SMS’s desire to live in; SMS’s love of
Frechtman, Bernard
Frederik IX, King of Denmark
French, Jared
French, Margaret Hoening
Frenchy’s Gay Line,
see
Gay Parisian Press
Freud, Sigmund
Frisch, Howard
Fritscher, Jack
Fritz (dog)
Fugate, James Barr
Gallup, Donald
Garland, Hamlin
Gay Life: Leisure, Love, and Living for the Contemporary Male
(Rofes, ed.)
Gay Parisian Press
gay rights movement, assimilationist approach in
gays,
see
homosexuals, homosexuality
Gay Sunshine
Gay Sunshine Interviews
(Leyland)
Gaysweek
Gebhard, Paul; SMS correspondence
Genet, Jean
Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
(Austen)
“Gentleman from San Francisco, The” (Bunin)
“George Platt Lynes: The Man” (Steward)
“Gertrude Stein and Painting” (Rose)
Gibran, Khalil
Gide, André SMS’s meeting with
Gimme Shelter
Ginsberg, Allen
Giraud, Robert
Girodias, Maurice
Giselle
Glide Methodist Church
Gold, Michael
Gold Coast
Golden Boys