Gertrude Stein

Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

History

4.6 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Gertrude Stein is remembered as a novelist, playwright, poet, and, art collector –– and the hostess of a Paris salon that gathered the cream of interwar modernism, including Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Matisse. A semi-open lesbian, her books include Q.E.D., one of the earliest English-language lesbian novels, and Tender Buttons, a book of poems full of allusion to lesbian sexuality. But in the last years of her life, as a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein sustained her lifestyle as an art collector and ensured her safety through the protection of powerful Vichy government officials – part of a pattern of involvement in far-right, antisemitic, and fascist politics. ----more---- SOURCES: Johnston, Georgia. The Formation of 20th-Century Queer Autobiography: Reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, and Gertrude Stein. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. Malcolm, Janet. “Gertrude Stein’s War.” The New Yorker. June 2, 2003. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/06/02/gertrude-steins-war. Pavloska, Susanna. Modern Primitives: Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Routledge, 1999. Stein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons. Reissue edition. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 1997. ———. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Reissue edition. New York: Vintage, 1990. Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. Lincoln: Combined Academic Publishing, 2008. Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Badgays, a podcast all about evil and complicated queer people in history.
0:21.6	My name's Hugh Lemmy, I'm a writer and author.
0:24.6	And I'm Ben Miller, a writer, researcher and member of the board of the Shulis Museum in Berlin.
0:29.6	Last week we were discussing the gilded sion of the British royal family, Prince Albert Victor.
0:34.6	Ben, who are we discussing this week? Well, Hugh, I'm going to begin by reading a poem.
0:41.8	Great. Wish me luck in getting through this one. If I told him, would he like it? Would he like it if I told him? Would he like it? Would Napoleon? Would he like it? Would Napoleon? If Napoleon, if I told him, if I told him, if Napoleon, would he like it if I told him if Napoleon? Would he like it if Napoleon if I told him if I told him if Napoleon
0:54.8	would he like it if I told him if I told them if Napoleon if Napoleon if I told him if
1:00.3	I told him if Napoleon if I told him if I told him would he like it would he like it if I
1:05.2	told him now not now and now now exactly as as kings, feeling full for it, exactitude as kings,
1:13.6	so to beseech you as full as for it,
1:16.0	exactly or as kings.
1:17.9	Shutters, shut, and open, and so do queens.
1:20.2	Shutters, and shutters and so,
1:21.7	shutters and so, shutters and so, shutters and so,
1:24.9	shutters and so, shutters and so, shutters and so, and so and so and so and so and so and so, and so, shutters and show, shutters shut and so, shutters and so, and so, and so
1:28.0	shutters shut and so and so, and so, and so shutters and so and so, exact resemblance to
1:32.8	exact resemblance, the exact resemblance, as exact resemblance, exactly as resembling, exactly
1:38.2	resembling, in resemblance, exactly and resemblance, for this is so because.
1:43.5	Oh God, I know from that style exactly who this is.
1:48.0	And so today, as many of you may know, we're going to be talking about the one and
1:53.0	oldie Gertrude Stein, novelist, playwright, poet, and socialite art collector,
1:58.0	who was the hostess of a Paris salon that gathered the cream
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.