Mae West: Gay Biology

Many great minds have contemplated MAE WEST — — but great minds don’t think alike. Academic and author Chase Dimock has written an interesting article on Mae as a playwright. This is Part 14.
• • Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me? • •
• • Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher • •
• • Havelock Ellis, Richard Von Krafft Ebbing, or Freud • •
• • Chase Dimock wrote:  What I find interesting about the reference to Ulrichs is that Mae West could have used more famous sexologists like Havelock Ellis, Richard Von Krafft Ebbing, or even the contemporary Freud to establish interest in the biology and psychology of homosexuality. Instead, she picked a more obscure name that was not so much interested in proving the biology of homosexuality as he was in taking it as an a priori fact and using the language to campaign for civil rights.
• • sympathetic to the homosexual • •
• • Chase Dimock wrote:  The Doctor is thus immediately established as sympathetic to the homosexual. Explaining his interest in the text to his sister, the Doctor states “there are many, man ills that science has not yet discovered, Barbara, to say nothing of being able to cure them.”
• • taken interest in such an obscene subject • •  . . .
• • His article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: As It Ought to Be
• • Chase Dimock, who teaches Literature and Composition at College of the Canyons, is Managing Editor of As It Ought to Be.
• • On Monday, 20 September 2010 in The Yale Review • •
• • “Mae West” • •

• • James McCourt wrote: One evening in the late 1970s, the last decade in which she made her living, Mae West, less and less often present ringside in downtown Los Angeles, more and more at home in her sumptuous white suite In the Ravenswood Apartments on Rossmore Avenue in Hollywood, told of a visitor she’d been entertaining at her leisure, at regular intervals in between reading and revising her memoirs.
• • Mae West said: Here I was, sittin’ on my big white couch and who should come to see me, all in evenin’ clothes, but Lou — — gone ovah, y’know, some years ago.  …”
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae is now working on her new contract by the terms of which she gets $100,000 a picture. They also say that the curvaceous one also gets about half that amount again for providing her own story and, be it known, Mae won't stand for anybody's writing stories for her pictures but Mae.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  “TV means too many people seein’ you for nothing.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A book on film stars mentioned Mae West.
• • Richard Irvin wrote:  And so who is Ms. Lyons? Dahl Lee Lyons appears to be the pen name of Dolly Lyons Dempsey, a longtime fan of Mae West's and the first president of her fan club. …
• • Source: Film Stars’ Television Projects: Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948; published in 2017
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • • 
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — — 
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/

• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4047th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.

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