Edgar Hugh Leoni: 1925 - ?
Edgar Leoni rearranged and used the letters of his real name to create an anagram, the pseudonym Noel I. Garde, under which he published two pioneering works on homosexual history.
The first was The Homosexual in Literature: A Chronological Bibliography, Circa 700 B.C.-1958, published by
Village Press, in 1959. It contained 32 pages.
The second was a book titled Jonathan to Gide: The Homosexual in History, published in New York, in 1964, by Vantage Press. It contained 751 pages and was republished in New York, in 1969, by Nosbooks. Both printings were probably self-publications. According to Paul Halsall the book contains "Biographical sketches of 303 men in chronological order. Gives the refs. that justify each inclusion."[1]
Under his pseudonym, Leoni also contributed articles, book reviews, and notes to the Mattachine Review and the ONE Institute Quarterly in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[2] Among these scholarly articles are: Garde, Noel I. "The First Native American 'Gay' Novel: A Study." One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies (Spring 1960): 185-190, and "The Mysterious Father of American Homophile Literature: A Historical Study." One Institute Quarterly: Homophile Studies (Fall 1958): 94-98, both about Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson.
Leoni's Nostradamus: Life and Literature (New York 1961) was in its time considered the standard work on the subject.
Edgar Hugh Leoni was born in 1925. He graduated BA from Harvard in 1945, and later earned an MA from Columbia. He worked in the insurance industry in New York City, and retired to Clearwater, Florida.
Bibliography
Halsall, Paul. Gay History Bibliography
Leoni, Edgar. Letter to Jonathan Ned Katz. In Katz Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts, New York Public Library.
New York Times: printed many letters by Leoni on current topics.
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.
Online Archive of California: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0f59q74b/
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- Description: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, drafts, copies, research files, diaries, photographs, and miscellaneous ephemera, of Edgar H. Leoni, author under his real name of Nostradamus: Life and Literature (1961), and under his pseudonym of Noel I. Garde of Jonathan to Gide: The Homosexual in History (1964).
- Background: Edgar Hugh Leoni was born in 1925. He graduated BA from Harvard in 1945, and later earned an MA from Columbia. He worked in the insurance industry in New York City, and retired to Clearwater, Florida.
Notes
- ↑ Accessed June 13, 2012 from http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/gayhistbib.asp Gay History Bibliography]
- ↑ From the finding aid for Edgar H. Leoni papers 1935-1995. (bulk 1956-1985). (ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.)
