![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So my writing of this book and my research reading all these biographies and getting into the archives was happening at the same time that I was sort of coming to terms with my own identity, with my own sexuality, and in the process of coming out. But yet at the same time that writing, that tendency, to cast all these relationships in euphemisms has the effect of closeting these writers and these figures for people who come later, for people like myself, who’s just trying to figure out what the story was. ![]() I talk about this in the book as sort of learning to read like a queer person, right? Like learning to see what’s in between the lines, learning that certain biographers, especially Virginia Spencer Carr writing in 1975, are going to be using these euphemisms that if you are a lesbian, if you are a queer person, you’re going to see that so-and-so’s prized traveling companion and you’re just going to laugh because you know what that means. ![]()
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