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 From: David Geary dgeary@swissonline.ch Subject: Re: more famous gays Dimitri Mitropolous was certainly gay, as was Vladimir Horowitz. (Someone said all famous pianists are gay or jewish.) In Horowitz's case, he was the son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini, who was a homophobe. Menotti, who was a protegee of Toscanini's as a child, said that he never heard Tsaikovsky as a child in Italy because Toscanini wouldn't conduct his music, because Tsaikovsky was homosexual. I doubt that Robert Goulet was discovered on Bernstein's casting couch. Goulet was a big TV star in Canada when he auditioned for Lerner und Loewe for Lancelot in Canada. He was just what they were looking for..... a handsome man with a beautiful baritone voice and a bit of a french accent. As for other famous gays... did anyone mention Charles Laughton? And Ralph Richardson? Also three great Italian stage and screen directors, Franco Zeffirelli. Luchino Visconto and Piero Paulo Pasolini.
David Geary
It's not really new. I wrote it for Centaur
Magazine last year, but if you didn't read
it there, you didn't read it anywhere.
"Pickup on the Prowl" is now in Pixtales
at the Silverfoxes Clubhouse. We must don't forgett the most famous gay movie. Casablanca, where all the actors, except Bogart (WHAT A MAN), were gay. Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains,...
Gilberto. Does anyone know if there were any famous artists who were gay? I mean besides Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Especially artists in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Thanks. Aretino (1492-1556) was a rascally 16th-century Italian writer named Pietro Bassi but called "Aretino," a diminutive form, because he was born in a village in Tuscany named Arezzo. (The town Roberto Benigni used as a setting in the Academy-Award winning film, "Life Is Beautiful.") Famous for writing indecent poetry, Aretino was always in trouble with authorities and on the run from assassins hired by his political enemies, but his admirers adored him and spoke of him as the Divine Aretino. He ended his life living with his dissolute sisters in Florence and is said to have keeled over dead one day at 64 from a fit of hysterical giggling over a dirty joke someone was telling him. A bisexual tale from Aretino's "The Wandering Whore" featuring a gay priest in Rome: Madeleine: (telling the story of her adventures with a young man from Genoa) One day I asked him who his familiars were, and whether they had not noticed his frequent visits to me. He replied that he had no acquaintances, other than a canon from St. Peter's to whom his parents had recommended him. He added that this cleric was a witty, handsome and pleasant-mannered youth who was greatly attached to him. Whereupon I told him, "If it will give pleasure to your friend, you may bring him to my house. I will receive him, because I love you, but you must be discrete." At this he threw his arms around me, full of gratitude, and assured me that he wished it with all his heart, for he lived on such close terms with the canon that neither withheld anything from the other. So it happened that one evening they arrived together. I liked the cleric's looks.there was a fresh and youthful air about him.though he could not compare to my young Genovese. The three of us settled down to a delightful conversation. After a while the two men ordered dinner, and after the meal we continued talking. Gradually the canon began warming up to me. Sitting on either side of me, he and the Genovese gave me a thousand caresses, which enchanted me. It was getting late, and now, having thoroughly fondled me, they carried me over to my bed and undressed me. At the whiteness of my skin, the firmness of my body and nipples, they exclaimed in admiration. Feverishly they took off their clothes, and soon I was lying between their two naked bodies, holding a swelling cock in each hand. They were both in high spirits, and I wondered who would take the first turn with me.
They both spent in the same moment, whereupon I burst out laughing at the sport we had just had, and especially at the canon who, I saw, was ready to renew his attack. This time I was sure that he was going to mount me, but his friend seized the opportunity instead and thrust in once more. Hugging us both tightly, the canon turned us on our sides and, kindly sparing me his weight, he once again reamed my young lover. This happened a third time, with the difference that the canon turned us around so that I was in the middle. Then, spreading my buttocks, he plugged me to the hilt. Imagine, what could I do? I have never received such a shaking in all my life, rammed as I was in two places at once. After this, the canon buggered me again, while his friend turned around and buggered him. In the morning, after we had gotten up, and as I was sitting in my chair, the young man presented me with his cock, putting it in my hand so that I would guide it into my cunt. He was entering me when the canon came up behind him, bared his ass, and entered him.
And now, my dear, you have my story. I do
not know if yours contains such pleasant
adventures; but I beg you in any case not to
hold anything back from me. John van Druten, Christopher Isherwood, and W.H. Auden have all popped up on our growing list of gay notables. Eventually, I will compile them into a master list, but ad interim, I will try to find enough on as many as I can and write some articles telling us more about them. Others of you are welcome to do the same, as some already have. Duplication doesn't matter because we all have a different mode of presentation and may contribute interesting new information in each case.
Those names heading the first paragraph here
are mentioned in an article in March Digest 187
as is artist Don Bachardy, Isherwood's life
partner, whom I am also adding to the list. In the wake of the terrible news from Nepal about the murder of the royal family, you may be hearing about Gurkhas (pronounced GOOR-kuhz). I read an article today about the concern of the Queen of England and the Prince of Wales over the affair. They were personal friends of the Nepali royals. The Gurkhas were mentioned several times in the article. Prince Charles is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Gurkha Rifles. In 1997, a monument to the Gurkhas was unveiled at Whitehall in London, which has this legend carved on it: "Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had country more faithful friends than you." One of my closest friends, a young American, is in love with and may marry a Nepalese young lady who is attached to a branch of Nepal's royal family. They are, of course, in shock. For those who do not know, the Gurkhas are an ethnic group of Nepal. They claim descent from the Rajputs of Northern India and entered Nepal from the west after being driven from India. They conquered (early 16th cent.) the small Nepalese state of Gurkha and henceforth called themselves Gurkhas. They expanded eastward, and by the mid-18th cent. had established their authority over all of Nepal. Their invasion of Tibet in 1791 brought Chinese retaliation, and a war (1814.16) with the British in India resulted in bringing strong British influence to Nepal. As the Gurkhas are extremely courageous, their conduct in battle so impressed the British that permanent ties were formed, and Gurkhas have fought beside the British ever since. They are predominantly Hindu and their influence made Hinduism the state religion of Nepal. Gurkhas have served in the armies of India and of Great Britain; over 200,000 fought alongside the British in World War I, and 40 battalions served in World War II.
Somebody asked for these.
Here are some fairly notable gays I'm aware of.
The conductor Joseph Krips (all but forgotten now),
the composer and
critic Virgil Thomson (absolutely wonderful!), the great
chef James Beard,
two character actors from the forties and fifties Thomas
Gomez and Edmund
Gwenn (who was a friend of Clifton Webb), Republican speaker
of the House
from Massachusetts Joe Martin (back in the fifties), and New
York's Cardinal
Francis Spellman (according to Gore Vidal and others).
Here are some names to add to the list: Musicians: Christoph Eschenbach, recently conductor of the Houston Symphony and soon to take over in Philadelphia and his partner, the pianist Justus Franz (I think the last name is correct).
Poets: Richard Howard, J.D. McClatchy, James Merrill,
Michael J. Rosen,
Stephen Spender (bi), Joe Brainard, Frank O'Hara End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #257
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Attached is a pic of English poet W. H. Auden. I
can't find a picture of English dramatist John
Van Druten (1901-1957), but some of his plays
may make him more familiar to you: "Old
Acquaintance" (1940), "The Voice of the Turtle"
(1943), "I Remember Mama" (1944), "Bell,
Book and Candle" (1950), and "I Am a Camera"
(1951). In 1944 he became a U.S. citizen. Calista
Flockhart will star in a revival of "I Am a
Camera" this summer, the play upon which the
musical, "Cabaret," is based. All of the above
plays were made into hit movies. He also was
nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 for
writing the screenplay of "Gaslight," a thriller
with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela
Lansbury (Jessica of "Murder She Wrote").
More about Van Druten another time. 
