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ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)
Autograph Letter Signed, to historian Jonathan Ned Katz, outlining his views about love and sexuality since his 1944 essay, "The Homosexual in Society," and giving travel plans. 1 1/2 pages, 8x8 1/4 inches, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; paper clip stain at upper left, horizontal fold. Np, 27 March 1982.
"I am pleased that my essay from 1944 might be included in excerpt in your new edition of Gay American History. Was that essay in Politics the first public avowal of an author's homosexuality? At the time, I knew of no other, and felt the obvious should be done. "My view still remains . . . it is our humanity that is most difficult to remain true to. To affirm our commonality. "That is the deep significant possibility I see in all Gay Liberation--. . . that there is a recognition that the entire range of sexual natures and of love relationships is essential to the strength and reality of the commonweal. . . ." From the collection of Jonathan Ned Katz.
