Those who saw him described him as quite handsome and he was often seen leaving his New York shows with more than one girl on his arm
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in my heart of hearts, I am outside my true element when away from cold, heartrending cities of ludicrous size after the manner of New York or London
Writers such as Alan Sinfield, Neil Bartlett and Joseph Bristow argue instead that it is not so much that the play itself is a gay play
"It gave me a clue that the world was on its way to a certain kind of movement, and that folk music might play a part in it and that I might play a part in folk music." Soon after returning to New York, he met impresario Albert Grossman, who would go on to manage Dylan, Janis Joplin and others and who at the time was looking to put together a group that would rival the Kingston Trio, which in 1958 had a hit version of the traditional folk ballad "Tom Dooley." But Grossman wanted a trio with a female singer and a member who could be funny enough to keep an audience engaged with comic patter