Three names worth saying when institutions show their seams. Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), queer in a city with laws against it, wrote on napkins in lunch breaks and produced 500 poems that changed American poetry. Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), whose The Well of Loneliness was the first serious lesbian novel in English — tried for obscenity in 1928, banned 31 years. She never apologized. Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), in Paris, queer and Jewish, hosted Picasso and Hemingway at 27 rue de Fleurus. Wrote in circles on purpose. Let the critics exhaust themselves. The institutions that tried to erase them are still updating their by-laws. The work they left is still being read.
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