“You’re a sad and pathetic man, [Michael]. You’re a homosexual and you don’t want to be, but there’s nothing you can do to change it!”
Samuel Untermyer in His Enchanted Gardens (Part 2)
JULY 19, 1939. YONKERS, NY— I MEAN, HOW OFTEN DO YOU NOTICE WHAT ANOTHER MAN PINS TO HIS LAPEL? When I catch up to Mr. Chisholm, he says the Odontioda is Mr. Untermyer’s orchid of choice.
Samuel Untermyer in His Enchanted Gardens (Part 1)
JULY 19, 1939. YONKERS, NY— I’M ALREADY LATE TO MEET HIM. Maybe it’s because I care nothing for flowers. Speeding in a cab toward Yonkers and his Greystone mansion, I wince at the thought of those willowy things ahead.