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The celebrated “New York School” poet Frank O’Hara lived here in the late 1950s during the height of his career. The openly gay O’Hara published a poem entitled “Homosexuality” in 1954.
90 University Place
Photo portrait of American poet Frank O'Hara
90 University Place
"Meditations in an Emergency" by Frank O'Hara
90 University Place
Frank O'Hara
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"Meditations in an Emergency" by Frank O’Hara, 1957 was published five years after the American Psychiatric Association listed homosexuality as a sociopathic personality disturbance, and four years after President Dwight Eisenhower signed an executive order banning homosexuals from working for the federal government or any of its private contractors.
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