At the time, some critics were so offended by the subject, they refused to read the book, let alone review it. In “The City and the Pillar” (1948), one of Vidal’s earliest novels, he wrote about a young man coming to accept he was homosexual. Vidal famously had feuds with Truman Capote and Norman Mailer as well. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face, and you’ll stay plastered.”īuckley later regretted using “queer” but still disliked that Vidal was an “evangelist for bisexuality”.īuckley was not his only literary opponent. Vidal’s lifelong opponent William F Buckley once said to him on National TV: He was also a self described bisexual or pansexual. Gore Vidal was an writer, a political pundit and one of the most polarizing figures of the 20th Century.
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Starkowski and Chuck Howard, another Lynes model, became lovers and posed together for the artist collective known as PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret Hoening French). Through him Starkowski was introduced to other gay artist of that era - Bernard Perlin (who also became his lover), Jared French and Paul Cadmus. Lynes was a commercial photographer who shot male nudes for his private collection (not to be revealed until after his death). Through this vocation he met George Platt Lynes. To make ends meet, he turned to hustling… performing sex with men for money. Ted Starkowski was a former GI who settled down in New York City after his stint in the army. Since gay men are often forced into the fringes of society, we’re more accepting of people who don’t meet straight norms of sexuality. I’ve written about a few hustlers and prostitutes in this tumblr (see links below).