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The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture
In a book deeply impressive in its reach while also deeply embedded in its storied setting, bestselling historian Douglass Shand-Tucci explores the nature and expression of sexual identity at America’s oldest university during the years of its greatest influence. The Crimson Letter follows the gay experience at Harvard in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing up...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
June 1st 2004
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published May 19th 2003)
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The Crimson Letter can be called a lovingly traced out gay family tree at Harvard. Shand-Tucci '72 first sets up two homosexual archetypes at Harvard in the first chapters: the Walt Whitman warrior/athlete masculine man (think Brokeback Mountain) and the effeminate Oscar Wilde aesthete (approximately the experts on Queer Eye). Subsequent chapters describe how various generations of Harvard men, starting in the mid-nineteenth century, fit into each, as they lived their lives either close to or aw...more
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