kenneth marlow MR. MADAME a great novel of the gay life

19Feb/120

kenneth marlow MR. MADAME a great novel of the gay life

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“I met Kenneth Marlow in 1972 when he was in the process of becoming Kate Marlowe. He threw a fundraising Big Band dance at which Sally Rand (then 70) performed her famous Fan Dance under a VERY DIM blue bulb. He called the evening “The Ball to End All Balls.” When I interviewed her later (Kate) she told me she’d grown up in a whorehouse in Winnemucca, Nevada. I’m not at all sure if that was true but it was a fascinating detail, so I appropriated it for Anna Madrigal in “Tales of the City”- armistead maupin

Advertising circular for Mr. Madam Collection Victor Minx:

Kenneth Marlow was an active homosexual, a female impersonator, a male whore in an all femaie cathouse and the “madam” of a homosexual whorehouse that “serviced” an exclusive Hollywood clientele. He was kept in sexual bondage by the Mafia and escaped. He was drafted into the army and raped by fourteen men. He was a mark for every form of sexual atrocity, the lumberjack’s darling, the sailor’s pet, the “bar girl” who could be had. Mr. Madam is… THE WORLD’S MOST INTERESTING MAN!

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