Monty Woolley Born August 16th

Edgar Montillion Woolley was born August 16th, 1888 in New York City. Before beginning an acting carreer on Broadway, Woolly was a professor and lecturer at Yale University. Woolley changed careers in 1936 and he was nearly a life long friend of Cole Porter, with whom he shared adventures - the kind you don't mention to your mother.

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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.

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John Rechy Born On March10th

John Francis Rechy was born March 10th in El Paso, TX. Of Scottish and Mexican descent, Rechy is best known for his first novel, City of Night, about a gay hustler turning tricks in Los Angeles, New York, and New Orleans.

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