The Fairy
November, 1962
In my youth during the Twenties, not much was known in our Chicago newspaper circles about fairies except that they existed -- chiefly in New York. Visiting New Yorkers wore derbies, carried canes, smelled of cologne, spoke with a lisp and were loud with boasts of famous ladies they had toppled. I had read Havelock Ellis and such details stirred suspicion.I learned later that these flossy Gothamites were not necessarily homosexuals but normal New York literary types. What had seemed a touch of d...
