The Homosexual in Society
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Long before it was safe to do so, Robert Duncan "came out" in both his personal and public lives. In 1944, Dwight Macdonald's Politics (In Politics: vol. 1, no. 7, August 1944.) published Duncan's still-controversial article, The Homosexual in Society. This caused John Crowe Ransom to withdraw Duncan's poem "African Elegy" from its scheduled publication in the Kenyon Review.
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