Pink Triangle (ebook)

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Darwin Porter , himself an unrepentant enfant terrible, moved through the entourages of this Pink Triangle with impunity for several decades of their heydays. Today he is one of the most respected and highly visible celebrity biographers in the world.

ISBNs and titles of author's previous books: Marilyn at Rainbow's End 978-1-936003-29-7; Elizabeth Taylor, There is Nothing Like a Dame 978-1-936003-31-0; Brando Unzipped 978-0-9748118-2-6

?This is a book that should be included in the curriculum of Gay 101 for every 20-something Gay man (and an elective for Lesbian women) who have never experienced the trashy catastrophe that was Boom! and only knew of In Cold Blood from the Phillip Seymour Hoffman flick. It's also primo beach reading for any Gay theatre/gossip queen over the age of 35. And it is definitely one of the top achievements of writer Darwin Porter, co-author/publisher Danforth Prince, and the notorious imprint, Blood Moon Productions. ?Imagine Blanche DuBois, Holly Golightly, and Myra Breckenridge attending the Black and White Ball accompanied by Caligula and Stanley Kowalski, sharing their drugs, booze, and carnal charms with anyone who was anyone. That's pretty much the tone and tenor of The Pink Triangle...a trifecta of geniuses who turned Broadway, Hollywood, and the literary world on its collective ear in the space of two and a half decades... Three extraordinary men, they partied feuded, admired, and despised each other for a sizable chunk of late 20th century cultural history... It's depressing to contemplate what America's cultural landscape would look like without the influence of these three men--a lot more dull, a lot less passionate and transgressive, and definitely less trashy and spectacular.? ?June 27, 2014, by SGN staff writer, Maggie Bloodstone

?A banquet... If PINK TRIANGLE had not been written for us, we would have had to research and type it all up for ourselves?Pink Triangle is nearly seven hundred pages of the most entertaining histrionics ever sliced, spiced, heated, and serviced up to the reading public. Everything that Blood Moon has done before pales in comparison."Given the fact that the subjects of the book themselves were nearly delusional on the subject of themselves (to say nothing of each other) it is hard to find fault. Add to this the intertwined jungle that was the relationship among Williams, Capote, and Vidal, of the times they vied for things they loved most?especially attention?and the times they enthralled each other and the world, [Pink Triangle is] the perfect antidote to the Polar Vortex.?

?Full disclosure: I have been a friend and follower of Blood Moon Productions' tomes for years, and always marveled at the amount of information in their books?it's staggering. The index alone to Pink Triangle runs to 21 pages?and the scale of names in it runs like a Who's Who of American social, cultural and political life through much of the 20th century.?

?We Brits are not spared the Porter/Prince silken lash either. PINK TRIANGLE's research is, quite frankly, breathtaking. PINK TRIANGLE will fascinate you for many weeks to come. Once you have made the initial titillating dip, the day will seem dull without it.?0Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Enfants Terribles 1
Chapter Two: Tennessee in Provincetown 19
Chapter Three: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 25
Chapter Four: Lana Turner and the Celluloid Brassiere 41
Chapter Five: Sybaritic Isherwood 49
Chapter Six: Clark Gable, Nina, and Eugene Vidal 63
Chapter Seven: Monty Clift 87
Chapter Eight: Tennessee's Glass Menagerie 107
Chapter Nine: Gore Meets the Glorious Bird 131
Chapter Ten: Tennessee Confronts Truman's ?Forked Tongue? 149

Chapter Eleven: Gore vs. Truman (The Eagle Meets the Condor) 161

Chapter Twelve: The City and the Pillar 171

Chapter Thirteen: Truman's Other Voices 179

Chapter Fourteen: A Streetcar Named Marlon Brando 185

Chapter Fifteen: Postwar Europe's Most Sought-After Male Prostitute 211

Chapter Sixteen: Tennessee's Rocky Ride on ?The Little Horse? 221
Chapter Seventeen: Truman and His Mother 245
Chapter Eighteen: Scarlett O'Hara--She's Back! 267

Chapter Nineteen: Tennessee and Gore in Pursuit of Billy the Kid 283

Chapter Twenty: Gore Vidal Seduces Jack Kerouac 295
Chapter Twenty-One: Lancaster ?Tattoos? Magnani 311
Chapter Twenty-Two: Tallulah vs. Tennessee 323
Chapter Twenty-Three: Truman Beats the Devil 345
Chapter Twenty-Four: Where Prostitutes Were Named After Flowers 355
Chapter Twenty-Five: Gore's Longtime Companion: Howard Austen 367
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Amorous Pursuits of Gore Vidal 377
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Gore ?Dances? With Rudi in the Nudi 399
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Gore Confronts the Very Difficult Bette Davis 405
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Tennessee's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 419
Chapter Thirty: Gore's Ménage à Trois 437
Chapter Thirty-One: ?The Dirtiest American Motion Picture Ever Made? 445
Chapter Thirty-Two: Truman's Hatchet Attack on Hollywood's Bad Boy 457
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Queering of Ben-Hur 467
Chapter?Thirty-Four: Breakfast at Tiffany's 475
Chapter Thirty-Five: Fidel Castro: Radical, Revolutionary, and Media Star 497
Chapter Thirty-Six: Diana Barrymore:?I Want To Be Mrs. Tennessee Williams 517
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Sweet Bird of Youth 527
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Night of the Iguana (the play) 551
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Debate Still Rages:?Tennessee and JFK? 561
Chapter Forty: The Night of the Iguana (the movie) 567
Chapter Forty-One: A Trio of Illustrious Drunks Going Boom! 583
Chapter Forty-Two: In Cold Blood 599
Chapter Forty-Three: Myra Breckinridge 613
Chapter Forty-Four: Truman Capote's Party of the Century 627
Chapter Forty-Five: Caligula 639
Chapter Forty-Six: Answered Prayers 645
MEMORIAM: May They Rest in Peace 653

Acknowledgments 667

Recording the Voices, Pink Triangle: Its Authors 671

Index 677