Phil Andros Born July 23rd

Phil Andros, ne Samuel M. Steward, was born July 23rd, 1909 in Woodsfield, OH. Steward may be the only man to have been an English professor, tattooist, and writer of gay porn and non porn novels, friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas, Andre Gide, Thomas Mann, Lord Alfred Douglas, and Thornton Wilder, and a collaborator of Alfred Kinsey.

Learn more at GLBTQ and Gay Ohio History Initiative.