Re: Samuel Loveman
Posted by:
wilum pugmire (IP Logged)
Date: 13 August, 2011 09:27AM
calonlan Wrote:
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> It seems to me far more likely, given the tenor of
> the age in polite society, that it was a matter of
> indifference - folks of an earlier era did not
> obsess over the question of one's sexuality, nor
> was it considered proper to do so - and, indeed,
> the content bachelor (see "My Fair Lady" et al)
> was a common figure of English novels, drama,
> musicals etc. - and whether he might or might not
> have a penchant for the irregular was a topic
> which only occurred when scandal erupted -
I think you may be EXACTLY right. Lovecraft also chose to "ignore" Loveman's Jewishness because it wasn't displayed in the manner that triggered Lovecraft's racism. It seems evident from all of his comments in letters (and in some stories) that I have seen that HPL admired masculine men and what he hated in queers was their effeminacy. Queers whom he befriended may have been "poetic" and urbane in mannerism, but not screaming queens. The one gent that really repulsed Lovecraft "I didn't know whether to kiss him or kill him...") seems to have been of the screaming variety.
"I'm a little girl."
--H. P. Lovecraft, Esq.