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| − | This is a stub article started by Jonathan Ned Katz on June 29, 2008 -- gay pride day in New York City -- I think Whitman would appreciate that!
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| − | I hope that users will help to collectively create this entry, making it the most comprehensive existing timeline and list of primary and secondary sources on Whitman, sexuality, and intimacy.
| + | Jonathan Ned Katz hopes that users will help to collectively create this entry, making it the most comprehensive existing timeline and list of primary and secondary sources on Whitman, sexuality, and intimacy. |
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| − | After that work is done we can collectively add a narrative history on the subject of Whitman, sexuality, and intimacy.
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| − | If you collaborate on creating this entry, please list your name in alphabetical order in the list of entry creators at the end of this section. | + | After that work is done we can collectively add a narrative history on the subject of Whitman, sexuality, and intimacy. If you collaborate on creating this entry, if you wish, please list your name in alphabetical order in the list of entry creators at the end of this section. |
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| − | ==Timeline on Walt Whitman, Sexuality and Intimacy==
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| − | '''1840, December:''' While a teacher in a Southold, Long Island school, Whitman is reputedly run out of town after a parent becomes irate over what he considered Whitman's undue familiarity with his son, one of Whitman's students.<ref>Katherine Molinoff, ''Walt Whitman at Southold'' (Smithtown, n.p., 1966), privately printed; also David S. Reynolds ''Walt Whitman's America'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), pp. 70-73.</ref>
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| − | '''1855, month, day:''' Whitman publishes first edition of Leaves of Grass. Citation
| + | Whitman and his brothers. |
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| − | '''1856, May -- May 1859:''' Sometime during this period, Walt Whitman is believed to have lived with or near his first known lover, Fred Vaughan. Whitman was living in his family home on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn, and Vaughan either lived with him or Vaughan lived nearby with his own family.<ref>Charley Shively, editor, ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1987), pp. 36-50.</ref>
| + | Whitman and his father. |
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| − | '''1856, month, day:''' Whitman publishes second edition of Leaves of Grass. Citation?
| + | Whitman and his mother. |
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| − | '''1860, month, day:''' Whitman publishes third edition of Leaves of Grass. Citation?
| + | Whitman and Gilchrist, Anne and her son Herbert. |
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| − | '''1862, September 18:''' Whitman learns the news of the battlefield death of Union soldier Bill Giggee, as relayed by his surviving comrade, Arthur Giggee. Whitman uses the circumstances of Bill's death & Arthur's response in the ''Drum Taps'' poem, "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night."<ref>Martin G. Murray, "Responding Kisses: New Evidence about the Origins of 'Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' (Spring 2008, 25:4), 192-197.</ref>
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| − | '''1865, January to March:''' Whitman meets his second known male intimate, Pete Doyle, a former Confederate soldier who is working as a streetcar conductor in Washington, DC.<ref>Martin G. Murray, "'Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle," ''Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' (Summer 1994, 12:1), 13.</ref>
| + | Whitman and Symonds, John Addington. |
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| − | '''year, month, day:''' Whitman meets Harry Stafford. Citation?
| + | Whitman and Traubel, Horace. |
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| − | '''1874, July 12:''' Edward Carpenter, who would gain prominence as a British Fabian Socialist and defender of the "intermediate sex," sends his first letter to Walt Whitman.<ref>Walt Whitman, ''The Correspondence'', edited by Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 3: 41n.</ref>
| + | Whitman and Stoker, Bram. |
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| − | '''1876, February 14:''' Bram Stoker sends a letter to Whitman that he had written two years prior, on February 18, 1872.<ref>Walt Whitman, ''The Correspondence'', edited by Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 3: 28.</ref>
| + | Whitman and Carpenter, Edward. |
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| − | '''1877, May 1:''' Edward Carpenter pays his first visit to Walt Whtman, and remains through the end of June. Carpenter later recalled that he and Whitman were sexually intimate during this visit.<ref>Walt Whitman, ''The Correspondence'', edited by Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 3: 82n, 89n, 95n. See also Edward Carpenter, ''Days with Walt Whitman, With Some Notes on His Life and Work'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1921 (reprint of 2nd editition, December 1906; first edtion published May 1906)), 3-4, 32. See also, Martin G. Murray, "Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter, Gavin Arthur, and ''The Circle of Sex''," ''Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' (Spring 2005, 22:4), 194-198.</ref>
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| − | '''1882, January:''' Oscar Wilde visits Walt Whitman in Camden.<ref>Walt Whitman, ''The Correspondence'', edited by Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 3: 263.</ref>
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| − | '''1884, June:''' Edward Carpenter made his second visit to Walt Whitman in Camden.<ref>Walt Whitman, ''Daybooks, 1876-1891'', p. 337.</ref>
| + | Whitman and soldiers. |
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| − | '''year, month, day:''' Whitman meets Oscar Wilde for the second time. Citation?
| + | Whitman and students. |
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| − | '''1884, April:''' Bram Stoker in the company of British actor Henry Irving meets Walt Whitman in Camden.<ref>Gay Wilson Allen, ''The Solitary Singer'', p. 516.</ref>
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| − | '''1887, December 22:''' Bram Stoker pays a second visit to Walt Whitman in Camden.<ref>Walt Whitman, ''The Correspondence'', edited by Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 4: 41n.</ref>
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| − | '''year, month, day:''' Mrs. Gilchrist first writes to Whitman. (what's her name?)
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| − | ==Primary Sources on Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy== | |
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| − | Whitman, Walt. [sex manifesto in Leaves of Grass 1856]
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| − | ==Secondary Sources on Whitman, Sexuality, and Intimacy==
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| − | Katz, Jonathan Ned. ''Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
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| − | Charley Shively, editor, ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1987).
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| − | Martin G. Murray, "'Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle," ''Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' (Summer 1994, 12:1), 1-51.
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| − | Martin G. Murray, "Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter, Gavin Arthur, and ''The Circle of Sex''," ''Walt Whitman Quarterly Review'' (Spring 2005, 22:4), 194-198.
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| − | ==Creators of this Entry Listed Alphabetically by Last Name==
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Timeline, Sources, Narrative
OPEN ENTRY: This entry is open to collaborative creation by anyone with evidence, citations, and analysis to share, so no particular, named creator is responsible for the accuracy and cogency of its content. Please use this entry's Comment section at the bottom of the page to suggest improvements about which you are unsure. Thanks.
This is a stub, an entry with no, little, or incomplete text that users are encouraged to add to if they have data, documentation, citations, or constructive suggestions. Tip: first research what has already been written and create the bibliography (don't reinvent the wheel).
Jonathan Ned Katz hopes that users will help to collectively create this entry, making it the most comprehensive existing timeline and list of primary and secondary sources on Whitman, sexuality, and intimacy.
After that work is done we can collectively add a narrative history on the subject of Whitman, sexuality, and intimacy. If you collaborate on creating this entry, if you wish, please list your name in alphabetical order in the list of entry creators at the end of this section.
Subjects to Discuss in this Entry
Whitman and his brothers.
Whitman and his father.
Whitman and his mother.
Whitman and Gilchrist, Anne and her son Herbert.
Whitman and his sisters.
Whitman and Symonds, John Addington.
Whitman and Traubel, Horace.
Whitman and Stoker, Bram.
Whitman and Carpenter, Edward.
Whitman and guys he met in the street.
Whitman and soldiers.
Whitman and students.
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