5. The Beginning of the End, 1930–40
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3. Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore.
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7. Marianne Moore, The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore.
8. “Marianne Moore Wins Dial Prize of $2,000,” New York Times, December 23, 1924.
9. Leavell, Holding On Upside Down.
10. Marianne Moore, “The Plums of Curiosity,” Vogue, August 1, 1960.
11. Leavell, Holding On Upside Down.
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21. Author interview, December 15, 2016.
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23. Alexiou, Gowanus.
24. Sohn, “The Star-Studded Life of Ms. Dorothy Bennett.”
25. Chauncey, Gay New York.
26. Broadway Brevities, November 2, 1931.
27. Thomas Painter Archive, Kinsey Institute, Box 3, Series II D. 2, Folder 1.
28. “Sinful Sands Street Really Just a Sissy,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 26, 1935.
29. “While Brooklyn Sleeps: Sands Street, the Sailor’s Paradise,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 10, 1935.
30. “By the Way, by Maxwell Hamilton,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 15, 1939.
31. “Homosexual Resorts in New York City, as of May 1939,” Thomas Painter Archive, Kinsey Institute.
32. Lincoln Kirstein 1931–1932 diary, Lincoln Kirstein papers, New York Public Library.
33. Chauncey, Gay New York.
34. Chauncey.
35. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 25, 1927.
36. Chauncey, Gay New York.
37. Mara Bovsun, “When Cops Raided NYC’s Minsky’s Burlesque for ‘Incorporated Filth,’” New York Daily News, August 14, 2017.
38. Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society.
39. Mecca Reitman Carpenter, No Regrets: Dr. Ben Reitman and the Women Who Loved Him.
40. John C. Moffitt, “First Days Are Worst in Novice Nudist’s Life,” Buffalo Evening News, September 23, 1933.
41. H. Allen Smith, “Newspaper Man Invades Nudist Camp at Highland; Doffs Clothes to Reveal Its Secrets,” Peekskill (NY) Evening Star, August 19, 1933.
42. Robert Latou Dickinson and Lura Beam, The Single Woman: A Medical Study in Sex Education.
43. Dickinson and Beam.
44. Robert Latou Dickinson Case History, Robert Latou Dickinson Collection, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.
45. Terry, American Obsession.
46. Names Binder, Thomas Painter Collection, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.
47. Henry, Sex Variants.
48. Heather R. White, Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights.
49. Proposal for Study of Homosexuality, G. W. Henry file, Payne Whitney Clinic.
50. Henry, Sex Variants.
51. Terry, American Obsession.
52. Henry, Sex Variants.
53. “Gross, Alfred,” Names Binder, Thomas Painter Collection.
54. “Gross, Alfred.”
55. Letter from Alfred Kinsey to Jan Gay, August 13, 1946, Jan Gay File, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.
56. Jan Gay Collection, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University.
57. Dorothy J. Farnan, Auden in Love: The Intimate Story of a Lifelong Love Affair.
58. Roger L. Geiger, ed., History of Higher Education Annual: 1990.
59. Gerard N. Burrow, A History of Yale’s School of Medicine: Passing Torches to Others.
60. “‘Not Towers of Marble,’ Sing Brooklyn College Students,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 14, 1932.
61. Robert Friend, Shadow on the Sun: Poems.
62. Jonathan Lewin, “When Hoovervilles Cropped Up in NYC amid the Great Depression,” New York Daily News, August 14, 2017.
63. Harold Norse, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey.
64. Norse.
65. Norse.
66. FBI File on David McKelvy White, File #100-5685, report made by G. Allison Driskell.
67. FBI File on David McKelvy White.
68. Norse, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel.
69. Interview with Bernard Grebanier, April 24, 1974, Frederic Ewen Audiotape and Videotape Collection, Tamiment Library, NYU.
70. Eva Kollisch, Girl in Movement: A Memoir.
71. “Loyalist Veterans Assail Aid to Fins,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 24, 1939.
72. “George White’s Son Back at Poetry Studies Again After Doing Bit in Madrid,” Cincinnati Enquirer, November 16, 1937.
73. Marjorie Heins, Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge.
74. Heins.
75. “Red Teacher Incited Students’ Outbreaks, Grebanier Says; Other Colleges in Probe,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 3, 1940.
76. “Queer Dialectics/Feminist Interventions: Harry Hay & the Quest for a Revolutionary Politics,” Bettina Aptheker keynote given at the conference Radically Gay: Celebrating the Centenary of the Birth of Harry Hay. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, September 28, 2012.
77. Conversation with historian Matt Young, November 2, 2017.
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82. John Lahr, “The Gang’s All Here,” New Yorker, June 4 and 11, 2012.