![]() While it’s true that the author never confirmed her sexuality in any known writings, that’s a fact that is as inconclusive as it is unsurprising given the period in which she lived and her own somewhat contradictory streak of social and religious conservatism. It is widely speculated that Cather was a lesbian, or otherwise LGBTQ-adjacent in college Cather was photographed wearing masculine clothes and a short men’s hairstyle, and for a time she (that’s the pronoun Cather used throughout her life, so I’ll use it too) took on the nickname “William.” She never married but maintained a series of close relationships with women throughout her adult life, and she lived for 39 years with the editor Edith Lewis, with whom she is also buried. I am a bisexual man (with some reservations about the “man” part of that designation). Maybe most significantly, we’re joined by what today would be called our “queerness”-though of course that’s a vague and disputed term at best, and not the one Cather would have used. ![]() ![]() In American pop culture, queerness is often pitted against what could, academically, be called “rurality.” ![]()
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