Gay succession.
Today's guest blogger is Martin, who sends this interesting piece of scholarly research.
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In the Gay Sunshine Journal 35 (1978) and reprinted in Allen Ginsberg's interview in the book Gay Sunshine Interviews, one finds the following:
1. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) slept with Edward Carpenter.
2. Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) slept with Gavin Arthur (aka Chester Alan Arthur, III, grandson of the president).
3. Gavin Arthur (1901-1972) slept with Dean Moriarity (aka Neal Cassady).
4. Neal Cassady (1926-1968) slept with Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997).
4. Neal Cassady also slept with Jack Kerouac (1922-1969).
According to Gore Vidal's momoirs, Palimpsest:
5. Jack Kerouac slept with Gore Vidal.
In the same memoirs, Vidal boasts about sleeping with two of the three men in the ballet "Fancy Free," to which Leonard Bernstein replies that he slept with all of them, but Harold's ass was the "eight wonder of the world."
6. Gore Vidal slept with Harold Lang.
7. Harold Lang (1920-1985) slept with Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990).
In his biography A Young Man from the Provinces, Alan Helms speaks of his experience in New York City in the late 1950s and 1960s.
8. Leonard Bernstein slept with Alan Helms (whom he called a sorte-able).
9. Alan Helms slept with Anthony Perkins (1932-1992)
9. Alan Helms slept with Steven Sondheim.
10. Anthony Perkins slept with Tab Hunter (as referented in Hunter's autobiography).
10. Anthony Perkins slept with Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993).
