Hubert Kennedy (born October 30, 1939)

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Hubert Kennedy (b.1931) is an American author and mathematician.

Kennedy was born in Florida and studied mathematics at several universities. From 1961 he was professor of mathematics, with research interest in the history of mathematics, at Providence College (Rhode Island), He spent three sabbatical years doing research in Italy and Germany.

Kennedy came out as gay on the cover of the magazine The Cowl, and, along with Eric Gordon, was part of the first Gay Pride parade in Providence, Rhode Island, which was held on June 26, 1976.

In 1986 Kennedy moved to San Francisco, where he continued his historical research, now in the beginnings of the gay movement in Germany. Since 2003 he has been in a home for assisted living in Concord, California. He has over 200 publications in several languages, from an analysis of the mathematical manuscripts of Karl Marx and a revelation of Marx's homophobia, to theoretical genetics and a proof of the impossibility of an organism that requires more than two sexes in order to reproduce. In addition, Dr. Kennedy has written biographies of the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano and the German homosexual emancipationist/theorist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, and has edited the collected writings of Ulrichs. His translations of the boy-love novels of the German anarchist writer John Henry Mackay and his investigations of the writings of Mackay have helped establish Mackay's place in the gay canon.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Kennedy


Hubert Kennedy, 1994, by Robert Giard (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=1121498)

American photographer Robert Giard is renowned for his portraits of American poets and writers; his particular focus was on gay and lesbian writers. Some of his photographs of the American gay and lesbian literary community appear in his groundbreaking book Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers, published by MIT Press in 1997. Giard’s stated mission was to define the literary history and cultural identity of gays and lesbians for the mainstream of American society, which perceived them as disparate, marginal individuals possessing neither. In all, he photographed more than 600 writers. (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/giard.html)

Further Readings:

From My Life: Autobiography by Hubert Kennedy
Publisher: Peremptory Publications (October 16, 2010)
Amazon Kindle: From My Life: Autobiography

This is the frank, unvarnished biography of an unlikely polymath. Alas, the story ends just as his life begins to show promise. But what is here is surprisingly entertaining, with intriguing hints of what-might-have-been. In it we see the well-known progression from an idealistic youth through painful frustrations to a realistic maturity—in this case ending with the dawning of a final satisfying egoism. There are numerous illustrations.

“Well, my friend Hubert has done it again! Who would have thought he would let it all hang out in such a really open way? Has he finally no shame! And what’s all this talk about ‘progressing from idealism to realism’? I mean, the kid just got dealt a bad deck of cards and had to play the only hand he had. Some gambles paid off and some didn’t. Hubert never was a good card player—and I ought to know. Anyway I learned a lot of useless information reading all this, so I guess it’s worth it. But why didn’t he just tell me everything over a couple of beers instead of making me read it? It has nice pictures and you’ll enjoy reading it, but it goes better with beer. Cheers!” Asa Ralubat

More Particular Voices at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Particular Voices