Special Episode: Pacchierotto and Florentine Sodomites (with Max Fox)
Sources:
Chitty, Christopher, Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, Duke University Press, 2020
Rocke, Michael, Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence, Oxford University Press, 1996
Online Digital Map: Flynn, Aidan, Sodomy and The City: Mapping Fear, Surveillance, Sexuality, and Punishment, University of Toronto, 2018 https://utoronto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=590a95cd059240388f003c49cd722dc9
Scelta di prediche e scritti di fra Girolamo Savonarola. [A cura di] P. Villari [e] E. Casanova. Con nuovi documenti intorno alla sua vita, https://archive.org/details/sceltadiprediche00savo
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Special Episode: Arthur Gary Bishop (with David Eichert)
His crimes, trial and execution seemed to be the manifestation of many of both the public fears and moral panics of the United States in the 1980s. 'Stranger Danger', pornography, homosexuality and childhood sexual abuse became the focus of heated public debate.
SOURCES:
Carlisle, Al, The Mind of the Devil: The Cases of Arthur Gary Bishop and Westley Allan Dodd, Carlisle Legacy Books, 2020
Petrey, Taylor G., Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Nathan, Debbie and Snedeker, Michael, Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, iUniverse, 2001
Strub, Whitney, Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right, Columbia University Press, 2013
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Special Episode: Dennis Cooper (with Diarmuid Hester)
The (in)famous author of the George Miles cycle, The Sluts, and many other classic works of radically transgressive fiction as challenging to traditional notions of gay writing as they are to the hetero mainstream.
SOURCES:
Cooper, Dennis. The Sluts. New York: Da Capo Press, 2004.
Cooper, Dennis. The George Miles Cycle. Five novels, information available here: http://www.dennis-cooper.net/georgemiles.htm.
Hester, Diarmuid. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2020.
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S4E10: Violette Morris
A powerhouse athlete with 14-inch biceps who dated Josephine Baker, smoked, and cut her breasts off to better fit behind the wheel of a race car: and when she was cast out of respectable society, she became a Nazi spy and a sadistic torturer known as the "hyena of the Gestapo."
SOURCES:
Colvin, Kelly Ricciardi. Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944-1954: Engendering Frenchness. London ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Doyle, Jack. “How a Pioneering Lesbian Became the Nazis’ ‘Hyena.’” OZY, May 25, 2015. http://test-2017-elb-web-us-west-2.aws.ozymandias.com/flashback/how-a-pioneering-lesbian-became-the-nazis-hyena/40366.
Kessler, Martin. “Violette Morris: Pioneering Female Athlete Turned Nazi Spy.” WBUR, February 24, 2017. https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/02/24/gestapo-hitler-book-anne-sebba.
Mansky, Jackie, and Maya Wei-Haas. “The Rise of the Modern Sportswoman.” Smithsonian Magazine, August 18, 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rise-modern-sportswoman-180960174/.
Papirblat, Shlomo. “Sporting Champion, Feminist Icon, Nazi Spy? The Extraordinary Life of Violette Morris.” Haaretz.Com. Accessed December 21, 2020. https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.premium-sporting-champion-feminist-icon-nazi-spy-the-crazy-life-of-violette-morris-1.6869492.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History. Seal Press, 2008.
FemBio: Frauen.Biografieforschung. “Violette Morris.” Accessed December 21, 2020. https://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/violette-morris/.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violette_Morris#/media/File:Violette_Morris_1920.jpg
S4E9: Camilla Hall
Nothing about the life of this daughter of a Lutheran pastor seemed out of the ordinary –– until she joined a strange, cult-like organization called the Symbionese Liberation Army, and helped kidnap the heiress Patty Hearst.
SOURCES:
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the United States House Committee on Internal Security.
Honig, Harvey Hilbert. “A Psychobiographical Study of Camilla Hall.” Loyola University of Chicago, 1979. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1788.
Lauters, Amy. “On Camilla Hall.” Amy Lauters On Everything (blog), September 3, 2020. https://amylauters.com/2020/09/03/on-camilla-hall/.
Matusitz, Jonathan Andre, and Elena Berisha. Female Terrorism in America: Past and Current Perspectives. Contemporary Terrorism Studies. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2020.
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S4E8: Gertrude Stein
A novelist, playwright, poet, and, art collector and the hostess of a Paris salon that gathered the cream of interwar modernism. A semi-open lesbian, in the last years of her life, Stein sustained her lifestyle as an art collector and ensured her safety through the protection of powerful Vichy government officials.
SOURCES:
Johnston, Georgia. The Formation of 20th-Century Queer Autobiography: Reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, and Gertrude Stein. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007.
Malcolm, Janet. “Gertrude Stein’s War.” The New Yorker. June 2, 2003. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/06/02/gertrude-steins-war.
Pavloska, Susanna. Modern Primitives: Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Stein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons. Reissue edition. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 1997.
———. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Reissue edition. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. Lincoln: Combined Academic Publishing, 2008.
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S4E7: Prince Albert Victor
An intellectually dull man, charmless, with neither cultural interests nor creative talents, but who, due to sheer accident of birth, found himself permitted to indulge all his whims.
SOURCES:
Ackroyd, Peter. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day. London: Vintage, 2018.
Cook, Andrew. Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2009.
Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Cleveland Street Scandal. New York: Coward McCann, 1976.
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S4E6: Truman Capote
A fantastically talented writer who rose from a difficult and violent childhood to literary fame and the highest echelons of society–only to be destroyed by his own demons.
SOURCES:
Als, Hilton. “The Shadows in Truman Capote’s Early Stories.” The New Yorker, October 13, 2015. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-shadows-in-truman-capotes-early-stories.
Capote, Truman. Answered Prayers. Reissue edition. New York: Vintage, 1994.
———. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 1993.
———. In Cold Blood. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 1994.
———. Other Voices, Other Rooms. Reprint edition. New York: Vintage, 1994.
Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. Illustrated edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
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S4E5: Carl Van Vechten
This white author, critic and photographer became enchanted with the Harlem Renaissance, approached Black cultures as a source of ideas that he could take and exploit, and perpetuated racist stereotypes in his work.
SOURCES:
Bernard, Emily. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. 0 edition. Yale University Press, 2013.
Holmes, David G. “Cross-Racial Voicing: Carl Van Vechten’s Imagination and the Search for an African American Ethos.” College English 68, no. 3 (2006): 291–307. https://doi.org/10.2307/25472153.
Sanneh, Kelefa. “White Mischief.” The New Yorker, February 17, 2014. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/17/white-mischief-2.
White, Edward. “The Making of an American.” The Paris Review (blog), May 14, 2014. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/05/14/the-making-of-an-american/.
———. The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America. 1st edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Woolner, Cookie. “‘Have We a New Sex Problem Here?’ Black Queer Women in the Early Great Migration.” Process: A Blog for American History (blog), October 24, 2017. http://www.processhistory.org/woolner-black-queer-women/.
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S4E4: Benjamin Britten
A fervent pacifist, antinationalist, and homosexual – with a deep, complex, and troubling love of children – Britten, through the strength of his music and through the nation’s desire to have a musical hero, became an utterly unlikely national celebrity.
SOURCES:
Bridcut, John. Britten’s Children. Main edition. London: Faber and Faber, 2006.
Britten, Benjamin. Peter Grimes. London: BBC, 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MyBUetbE38&t=1705s.
Conlon, James. “Message, Meaning and Code in the Operas of Benjamin Britten." Hudson Review LXVI, no. 3 (Autumn 2013). https://hudsonreview.com/2013/10/message-meaning-and-code-in-the-operas-of-benjamin-britten/.
Kildea, Paul. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century. Allen Lane, 2013.
Ryan, Hugh. When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.
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S4E3: Jeremy Thorpe
The “Very English Scandal” of disgraced Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe reveals how the law is impervious to the informal networks of power in the British establishment, and how homosexuality was subject to a series of double standards, tolerated in the powerful but suppressed in the ordinary citizen, practiced in private and denied in public.
Content warning for child sexual abuse in the early parts of this story.
SOURCES:
Bloch, Michael. Jeremy Thorpe. London: Time Warner Books, 2004.
Freeman, Simon, and Barrie Penrose. Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1996.
Preston, John. A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment. New York: Other Press, 2016.
Thorpe, Jeremy. In My Own Time: Reminiscences of a Liberal Leader. Edited by Duncan Brack. London: Politico’s Publishing Ltd, 1999.
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S4E2: Liberace
A flamboyant pianist who became an unlikely icon of Middle American family entertainment.
SOURCES:
Gabler, Neal. “Robert Harrison’s Scandalous Confidential Magazine.” Vanity Fair, April 2003. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2003/04/robert-harrison-confidential-magazine.
Liberace Music Video & Entrance 1981, 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dioRwB4RvrQ.
O’Connor, Pauline. “Mapping the Many Razzle-Dazzle Homes of Liberace.” Curbed LA, May 24, 2013. https://la.curbed.com/maps/mapping-the-many-razzledazzle-homes-of-liberace.
Pyron, Darden Asbury. Liberace: An American Boy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Rechy, John. “Randy Dandy.” Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-06-bk-65295-story.html.
Thorson, Scott. Behind the Candelabra: My Life With Liberace. Head of Zeus, 2013.
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S4E1: Cecil Rhodes
A British colonist and mining magnate who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. An ardent white supremacist, he rose from being a sickly child to having a near-complete domination of the world diamond market.
SOURCES:
Aldrich, Robert. Colonialism and Homosexuality. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2003.
Brown, Robin. The Secret Society: Cecil John Rhodes' Plans for a New World Order. London: Penguin Books, 2015.
Jourdan, Philip. Cecil Rhodes: His Private Life By His Private Secretary. London: Bodley Head, 1911.
Rotberg, Robert I. The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
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