“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Sense of all the windows and doors of her life flung open. Everything exposed to the light and air. Nothing protected, nothing left to be protected anymore. A wild woman, her mother called her. A shocking piece of work. And so she is. Lord have mercy.
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They insist that without an explicit historical record of their sexual encounters—diagrams, detailed descriptions of their conquests—to serve as undeniable proof, there’s no need to invent a queer history for them. Perhaps they had watched the same episode of Sex and the City that I had—“If you’re not going to eat pussy, you’re not a dyke”—to come
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When first published in 1953, The World in the Evening was notable for its clear-eyed depiction of European and American mores, sexuality, and religion. Today, readers herald Isherwood’s frank portrayal of bisexuality and his early appreciation of low and high camp.