Gay Artists in Modern American Culture
an imagined conspiracy
Contents
Acknowledgments.............................................vii
Introduction: Nixon, Myself, and Others.....................1
1 Discovery.................................................13
2 Explanation...............................................51
3 Frenzy....................................................105
4 Barber at the Met.........................................155
5 Aftermath.................................................204
Notes.......................................................239
Index.......................................................271
Chapter One
Discovery
In a flurry of comment after World War II, intellectuals, journalists, psychiatrists,
and others announced their discovery of a queer presence in
American culture and their dismay at what they discovered. In doing
so, they helped to initiate the Lavender Scare in the arts and to make
queer artists one face of the "Cold War homosexual menace." William ... read full excerpt from: Gay Artists in Modern American Culture ebook
