The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly is the story of a Nebraska-born artist (1901-1986) who crossed paths with a staggering array of famous and infamous personalities. He stole a box of bon-bons from Sarah Bernhardt. Was friends with Paul Swan, a.k.a. "The Most Beautiful Man in the World," who made women swoon when he danced in his tiny leopard-skin tunic. Was the frequent houseguest of Rose O'Neill, the free-living, gin-drinking...