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After visiting Walt Whitman, English Socialist Edward Carpenter concluded that the Poet “was before all a lover of the Male.”<ref>Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 365.</ref> | After visiting Walt Whitman, English Socialist Edward Carpenter concluded that the Poet “was before all a lover of the Male.”<ref>Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 365.</ref> | ||
| − | For Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, Carpenter's Ioläus “opened up for me soul windows.”<ref>George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 284.</ref> And a peek into The Intermediate Sex was for liberationist Harry Hay an “earthshaking revelation.”<ref>Stuart Timmons, The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement (Boston:Alyson Publications, 1990), 27.</ref> | + | For Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, Carpenter's ''Ioläus'' “opened up for me soul windows.”<ref>George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 284.</ref> And a peek into ''The Intermediate Sex'' was for liberationist Harry Hay an “earthshaking revelation.”<ref>Stuart Timmons, The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement (Boston:Alyson Publications, 1990), 27.</ref> |
| − | In Love's Coming of Age (1896) Carpenter wrote, “Love is...its own justification.”<ref>Edward Carpenter, Love's Coming of Age (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), 155.</ref> However various its “combinations,” “only in the most exceptional cases, if at all, may public institutions venture to interfere with” it.<ref>Carpenter, 155.</ref> | + | In ''Love's Coming of Age'' (1896) Carpenter wrote, “Love is...its own justification.”<ref>Edward Carpenter, Love's Coming of Age (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), 155.</ref> However various its “combinations,” “only in the most exceptional cases, if at all, may public institutions venture to interfere with” it.<ref>Carpenter, 155.</ref> |
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(Frontis portrait of Edward Carpenter from Towards Democracy: Complete Edition in Four Parts; London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Limited / Manchester: S. Clarke, 1907. Also shown is the title page from Love’s Coming of Age, 1911)
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Edward Carpenter
After visiting Walt Whitman, English Socialist Edward Carpenter concluded that the Poet “was before all a lover of the Male.”[1]
For Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, Carpenter's Ioläus “opened up for me soul windows.”[2] And a peek into The Intermediate Sex was for liberationist Harry Hay an “earthshaking revelation.”[3]
In Love's Coming of Age (1896) Carpenter wrote, “Love is...its own justification.”[4] However various its “combinations,” “only in the most exceptional cases, if at all, may public institutions venture to interfere with” it.[5]
References
- ↑ Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 365.
- ↑ George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 284.
- ↑ Stuart Timmons, The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement (Boston:Alyson Publications, 1990), 27.
- ↑ Edward Carpenter, Love's Coming of Age (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), 155.
- ↑ Carpenter, 155.
