The Gay Metropolis (79 page)

Talese, Gay,
159
n,
247

Taste of Honey, A
(film),
155
–56

Taubman, Howard,
165

Taylor, Elizabeth,
296

Taylor, Paul,
103

teachers, gay,
276

television, gay coverage on: early documentaries,
160
n

“CBS Reports,”
160
–71

in the seventies,
207
–9,
222
,
269

television studios: gay rights policies at,
270
–71

closeted gays in,
286

10 Percent
(magazine),
340

Thalia (movie theater),
106

theater: gay allusions in, in the forties,
16

musical comedy in the fifties,
89
–94

charges of gay “control”

of,
165
–68,
185

The Boys in the Band
,
185
–92

Third Avenue: gay bars and cruising on,
106
–7

This Is the Army
(Broadway musical),
37

Thomas, Robert McG., Jr.,
255

Thompson, Hunter,
144

Thomson, Virgil,
17
,
41

Thomdale, Eric,
225

Tilden, William “Big Bill,” 52

Time
,
19
,
23
,
25
,
30
,
99
,
142
–43,
155
,
168
,
176
,
208

Times Square: in the forties,
12
–14,
38

in the fifties,
82
–83

Tobias, Andrew,
325

Todd, Michael,
96

tolerance of gays: critique of,
127
–28

Tolson, Clyde,
69
–70

Thomases, Susan,
304

Tomkins, Calvin,
213

Tony's (bar),
8

trade (hustlers and prostitution),
10
,
83
,
110
,
111
–12

Tribe, Laurence,
319

Trilling, Lionel and Diana,
173

Tripp, C. A.,
160
–61

Truman, Harry;
68
,
335

Truscott, Lucien, IV,
201

“Two on a Party” (Williams),
94
–95

Updike, John,
145

Uyttendaele, Hendrik,
342

Vaccaro, Marion Black,
95

Vaid, Urvashi,
332
,
334

Vallone, Peter,
317

Van Dusen, Henry,
57

Van Ronk, Dave,
199

Variety
,
161

venereal disease:
See also
AIDS; antibiotics and,
119

in the sixties,
150

in the eighties,
310

Veterans Benevolent Association,
51
–52,
130
–31

Victim
(film),
132
–55

Vidal, Gore,
21
,
40
,
58
–62,
65
,
89
,
93
,
126
,
131
,
140
,
151
,
152
,
170
n,
175

writes
The City and the Pillar
,
58
–62

baits Roy Cohn,
76
–77

on sexual diversity in the fifties,
96
–97,
98

liaison with Kerouac,
98

confronts Buckley,
148

on gay playwrights,
166
–67
,
168
–69

in CBS report on gays,
169
–70

Vietnam war: antiwar movement,
136
–37,
209
,
249

Village Voice
,
201
,
213
,
216
n,
222

Villela, Edward,
109

Vinales, Diego,
215

Vincenz, Lilli,
165
n

Vining, Donald,
40

violence against gays,
84

in the eighties,
275

Violet Quill,
284

Virginia: sodomy statute of,
252
,
318

Visotsky, Harold M.,
239
n

Voeller, Bruce,
239
,
261
,
262

Volberding, Paul,
289

von Hoffman, Nicholas,
222

Vreeland, Diana,
135

WACs,
47
–48

Wallace, Mike,
221
,
231

and “CBS Reports” documentary on gays,
160
–71,
271

Wallach, Eli,
195

Wall Street Journal, The
,
137

Walsh, David I.,
19

Walsh, Gary,
291

Walters, Barbara,
213

Warhol, Andy,
168
n,
241
,
254

Warren, Jim,
33

Washington, D.C.: gay population of, in the fifties,
70
–71,
74
,
79

Washington Post
,
213
,
222
,
286

Washington Star
,
30
,
213

Waters, Sarah (pseudonym),
231
–35

Watson, Sam,
171

Watts, Richard, Jr.,
16

Waxman, Henry,
285

Way We Were, The
(film),
168

Webb, Clifton,
16
,
30
,
57

Weber, Bruce,
259

Weiler, Abe,
155

Wemiar Germany,
xiv
–xv,
25
,
210
,
244
,
271

Wein, Ken,
300

Weinberg, George,
205
,
227

Weisman, Steve,
277

Weismann, Dr. Joel,
298

Weiss, Ted,
285

Welch, Joseph,
76

Welles, Sumner,
17
–18,
81

Wenz, Jing,
275

West, Louis,
238

Westcott, Glenway,
43

Westmoreland, Tim,
285

Westmoreland, William,
272
n

West Side Story
,
89
–94,
185

“What It Means to Be a Homosexual” (Miller),
226
–29

Wheeler, Monroe,
43

Wherry, Kenneth,
74

Whitaker, Rick,
329

White, Justice Byron,
319

White, E. B.,
3

White, Edmund,
96
,
269
,
284
,
291

White, Theodore,
276

White House: Mattachine Society pickets,
164
,
164
–65n

Whitmore, George,
284

Whitney, David,
213

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
,
166
,
186
n,
187

Wicker, Randy,
199

Wilde, Oscar,
113
n,
212

William, Dr. Dan,
308

Williams, Tennessee,
13
,
30
,
58
,
61
,
89
,
94
–95,
97
,
98
,
165
,
166
,
167
,
170
n,
175

Willis, Ellen,
152

Wilikie Parr and Gallagher,
277
–78

Wilson, Charlie,
66
n

Wilson, Earl,
196

Wilson, John C,
9

Winchell, Walter,
15

Windham, Donald,
13

Winters, Shelley,
59

Wizard of Oz, The
(film),
193
,
197

Wolfe, Tom,
224

Wolfenden Report,
152
,
154

women: gay playwright portrayals of,
165
–67

Women, The
(Luce): military drag version of,
38

Women in Love
(film),
290

women's movement: of the sixties,
136

Women's Wear Daily
,
187

Wood, Natalie,
94
,
186

Woodard, Bronte,
298

Woodstock festival,
209

Woodward, Charles, Jr.,
180
n,
186

Worcester, Maurice,
22

World League for Sexual Reform, xv

World War II: Nazi persecutions during, xv–xvi

gays in the military during,
27
–39,
48
–50

gay relations in military,
32
–37

drag shows in,
37
–38

lesbians in the military during,
46
–47

Wreden, Nicholas,
60

Wyler, William,
97

Wynkoop, William,
25
,
45
,
124
–26,
129
–31,
200
,
240

Xax (Todd Alexius Long),
315
–17,
343
–44

Yablans, Frank,
184

York, Michael,
210
,
211

Young Man from the Provinces
(Helms),
188
–89n

Zadan, Craig,
91

Ziegler, Ron,
149
n

Zimmerman, Cane,
56
–57

Zipkin, Jerry,
276

The author is grateful for permission to quote from:

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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
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Copyright © 1993 by Gore Vidal. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Max Lerner, “Washington Sex Story”
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New York Times
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New York Times
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New York Times.
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New York Times
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New York Times.
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New York Times
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^*
When Willie Morris was its editor.

^*
In 1860, the bishop of Oxford made a brutal attack on Darwin's hypothesis. But after Thomas Henry Huxley responded vociferously on Darwin's behalf, the Church of England never made a formal challenge to science again.

^*
The New York Times
scorned the book: a brief Sunday review predicted that it might “set homosexuality back at least twenty years.” Bigelow also disliked it.
(New York Times Book Review
, April 26,1970, and author's interview with Otis Bigelow, October 25,1994)

^*
Two years Later, Gallowhur married Nackey E. Scripps, the granddaughter of E. W. Scripps, the newspaper publisher. They were divorced in 1949. Three years later, Mrs. Gallowhur married William Loeb, the fiercely conservative publisher of the
Manchester Union-Leader
in New Hampshire. Upon Loeb's death in 1981, she succeeded him as the paper's publisher. George Gallowhur died in Miami Beach in 1974. He was sixty-nine.