Gilded Age Homos

I’m calling it. We’ve definitely done this one before.

"The Smart Set at Red Roof"

Fake! No self-respecting Gay man would ever stay at Red Roof

OP, are you going to give us a guide to the highlights of this over-long "webinar"?

R3 The "tableau-non-vivant" occurs at 20 minutes.

A young FDR puts in an appearance

^ What are his legs like?

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I'm not going to bump, R7, unless you tell us the highlights R3.

Most of the good stuff starts around the 38 minute mark, that's where you see all the pictures of him partying with cute Harvard boys

Pics with the bfs start around the 43 minute mark

The original thread.

"Developed nude photos" at the 48:42 mark

Edward Perry Warren was another gilded age Bostonian homo who moved to England and had a fab house and friendship circle. His magnum opus - a three volume defence of pederasty - was recently republished.

Alice Austen took up photography at the age of ten as only a wealthy Gilded Age girl could even consider to do. She captured late 19th century life through her lens, including intimate scenes among her lady friends. She lived most her life with her great love Gertrude Tate until the stock market crash devastate her wealth and as the years went by they were separated as she lost her home and literally ended up in the poor house for the end of her life. A magazine researcher came across her glass negative photography plates and rescued her from obscurity and got her private care for her last days.

A proper Gilded Age young lady, Alice Austen.

Thomas Eakins the artist lived a very scandalous Gilded Age life and captured many individuals of the time in portraiture.

Lest we forget Henry and Hendrik...

It just so perfect that Hendrik grew up in Newport, RI of all places, sealing his Gilded Age bonafides. If you’ve been to his museum in Rome, you can just imagine Adolf Hitler having a wet dream over all his designs and sculptures.

The fight between Henry and Lord Ronald Gower for Hendrik was hilarious.

If you like gilded age homos, a good book – if an incoherant one – is Mysteries Of Paris about Morton Fullerton, who in his youth was an IT boy, and chased by men and women, whom he both bedded.

Here's Fullerton in his prime: as you can see, an absolute DISH. He was taken up in his youth by a rich gay set who whisked him off to Egypt – as one does.

Marion Mainwaring who wrote the book was an interesting character. She died a few years ago. She appears to have been one of those financially restricted bluestockings who lived on rusks to fund their writing and research. The book is like a detective story. Obviously inspired by the greatest of all literary detective stories, The Quest For Corvo.

Charles Warren Stoddard

Andrew Haskell Green was one of the biggest movers and shakers of NYC in the 19th century, but is all but forgotten today. He helped create the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Natural History Museum, New York Public Library, Central Park and was a key individuals who consolidated the five boroughs. He was lovers with Samuel J. Tilden who was governor of New York and ran for President and won the popular vote, but not the electoral college.

Samuel J. Tilden, as mentioned above. He left his money for the creation of the New York Public Library.

^ And he was MURDERED!

R24 Yes, Green, in a case of mistaken identity

Charles Deering is one of the great unspoken homos of the Gilded Age, along with every other person he ever knew.

He created Vizcaya, the greatest single house of the American Beaux Arts movement

OP Thanks for posting that, I had fallen down a Piatt Andrew rabbit hole a while back. I grew up close to Gloucester, and that bohemian set has always fascinated me. Red Roof with its peepholes and secret rooms full of studly Harvard boys, must have been fascinating to see.

John Singer Sargent.

But Ogden Codman would probably come No2 after Henry James in owning this thread in terms of insider influence...

There were several that settled or had second homes in Capri andTaormina for the boys, the Pattayas of their day.

Henry James just never found the right girl!

This guy

Randomly stumbled onto this guy, who sought to take over the influence of Ward McCallaster, the Gilded Age party planer extraordinaire who coined the term The 400. He did throw some elaborate parties of his own. Although married, his wife outted him in her memoirs including a brutal bit of news she received on her honeymoon about how there would be no hanky panky between them and little need for them to be together other then at social events that could advance both their interests.

^ The John and Kelly of yesteryear

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This guy

A. Piatt Andrew's photo albums are online. Some of the pictures are quite telling

I like this one

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