Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade (76 page)
Authors: justin spring
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The perineum is the area between the scrotum and the anus.
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The six stories were “The Peachiest Fuzz,” “Love Me Little, Love Me Long,” “I (Cupid) and the Gangster,” “World Rat #III,” “The Blacks and Mr. Bennett,” and “The Tattooed Harpist.”
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Steward’s work had, in fact, been previously joined with illustrations by Tom of Finland in an article on tattooing and sex published (in Danish) by Knud Rame/Kim Kent. (Joe Raymond, as told to Donald Bishop, “Kunst pa Kroppen,”
Eos
#4, April 1968.)
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Gay Sunshine Press has since reprinted many of these accounts in trade paperback form.
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In his last years Rose had fallen into severe drug and alcohol addiction, and his mental illness had led to fits of violence that occasionally landed him in prison. “It is the last act of a tragic farce,” his old friend Cecil Beaton wrote in his diary. “Anyone else who has drunk and drugged as he has would have long gone…It’s only a tragedy that he has not left behind him a great monument of work that would justify his behaving like a Corvo.” (Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton
[Hugo Vickers, ed.], pp. 216–17.)
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Finale: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
, edited by Michael Nava (Boston: Alyson, 1989).
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Founded in 1979 by a group of San Francisco police officers and deputy sheriffs meeting regularly and informally at Russian River, the club had incorporated itself in 1985 with the intention of providing peer support among gay police officers while engaging in charitable activities within the California community. By 1993 the organization would expand to include a southern division; a San Diego division followed soon after.
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A small collection of Steward’s late-life papers had been donated by Steward to Boston University during his final decade.
