4 Sunday

June

Pierre Louys, author of Chanson de Bilitis (1894), which purports to be a translation from the Greek, but is in fact

an original poetic glorification of Sapphic love, dies in Paris, 1925.

5 Monday

Stephen Crane, author of Flowers of Asphalt, an unpublished novel about male prostitution, the manuscript of which has never been found, dies at twenty-eight in Germany, 1900.

6 Tuesday

Joseph F. Remette, close companion and personal secretary to prominent interior decorator Michael Greer, arrested for his murder in New York City, 1976.

7 Wednesday

German poet and novelist Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin, whose repressed homosexuality bubbles to the surface of every page of his Hyperion, a romantic hymn to Greek love, dies at seventy-three in Tübingen, 1843.

8 Thursday

Famous French artist Marie Laurencin, who once asked, "Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses when girls are so much prettier?," dies at seventy in Paris, 1956.

9 Friday

Cole Porter, who in 1941 got away with these provocative lyrics-"Don't inquire of Georgie Raft/ Why his cow

has never calfed,/Georgie's bull is beautiful, but he's gay!"-born in Peru, Indiana, 1892.

10 Saturday

Christa Winsloe, author of Mädchen in Uniform, lover of journalist Dorothy Thompson, and an outspoken antiNazi, murdered in Vichy France by a criminal named Lambert, 1944.

Cole Porter:

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