Why Walt Whitman Was a Queer Pioneer
Aug 11, 2020
3 minutes
—DANIEL REYNOLDS
In What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life, author Mark Doty detailed a sexual experience with a man from Provincetown. In the midst of the encounter, he looked up at the face of his lover to observe “another man with short gray hair and beard, the same half-smile, but with the visionary dazzle of starlight in his eyes.”
“I was, quite calmly, looking into
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