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A Dispiriting Project Update

4/22/2023

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​Over the last year, my former literary agent sent me outlandish descriptions of the various reasons publishers gave for rejecting my book. Frankly, I always had it in the back of my mind that he was making them up. When publishers told him that in “this political climate” a book about a queer topic was inadvisable, or when an editor claimed that there was no reason to ever mention James Dean’s sexuality again because it had been discussed in 1975, I wondered if this could possibly be serious. Then this week I received the most dispiriting of rejections, one that left me flabbergasted. 
Keep in mind, I have published many books and received countless rejections. This was something completely different.

​The executive editor of a very large press was impressed with my book proposal, thought a book looking at the history of 1950s crackdowns on homosexuality through the lens of James Dean’s experience was a worthy topic, and was ready to make an offer pending approval from the editorial board. They sent the proposal to an “outside expert on gay history,” and, after overruling the executive editor, sent me a three-page critique of a book that they did not read. I know they didn’t read it because I hadn’t sent the manuscript to anyone at the press. They saw a one-page summary, a chapter outline, and a sample chapter that did not cover the material they criticized.
 
The editorial board informed me that they felt I had insufficiently considered evidence that James Dean was straight and that—in a book that they had not read—“you are treating every clue suggesting Dean’s gayness as reliable and every piece of counterevidence as not.” The book proposal specifically laid out the many reasons that I feel it is impossible to assign definitive labels to dead people, but what rankled me more than anything is the implication that I am a poor researcher and lacking in critical judgment, all without considering anything I actually wrote, or any of the evidence supporting it.
 
The critique went on to assert that my description of Rebel without a Cause as purposely including homosexual themes is obviously incorrect because—and this made me laugh bitterly—Vito Russo, writing in 1981, did not discover explicit homosexual themes in the movie in his book The Celluloid Closet. Russo, however, actually did find that (“Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause contained broad hints of alternative sexual behavior…”), but anyone who can read also knows that Russo wrote that he conducted no research into the production of the films he surveyed and commented only on his reading of the surface text. Rebel screenwriter Steward Stern stated with remarkable bluntness in a 1959 interview that he intended the movie to have “homosexual overtones” and had modeled it on homosexual relationships he had learned about among young WWII soldiers. He was, of course, revising Irving Shulman’s draft script, which was even more gay, with a predatory homosexual Plato instigating a murder plot to seduce the sexually confused Jim. But of course no one trusts me enough to accurately quote what the people involved said, not when someone offered a secondhand opinion four decades ago that can be misquoted.
 
They even criticized a passing reference to another celebrity in a chapter summary, writing that there was no conceivable reason to bring in that person and that it was inappropriate to do so. Had they trusted me enough to actually read the book, they might have learned that he and Dean lived a couple of blocks from one another for half a year, walked the same streets on the same nights to the same gay cruising ground where witnesses saw them (separately) watching the young men on beach, and that one of them was arrested there. This is documented in contemporary records from the 1950s.
 
But everyone knows better than me.
 
I won’t bore you with the rest. I don’t consider literary criticisms made without reading the book to be legitimate. Suffice it to say that I have a good idea who the “outside expert” is and why he disapproves.
 
Nevertheless, I can’t fathom why after all these decades we are somehow more censorious about James Dean than in the 1990s, the 1970s, the 1960s, or even the 1950s. I have copies of contemporary notes from the 1950s and 1960s in which famous folks discussed Dean’s sexuality (which, I remind you, does not fall neatly into modern categories); it was no secret, even if the media conspired to cover up what everyone in Hollywood already knew.  
 
I am sorry I stumbled onto this topic. It would never have occurred to me that so many people are so heavily invested in preventing me from writing about it. It’s dispiriting, and it makes me not want to write anything for a good long while. 
29 Comments
Charles Verrastro link
4/23/2023 11:25:10 am

Flabbergasted by such shoddy editorial malpractice. I can only suggest you focus on publishers specializing in Queer content. Can't imagine why anyone in this day and age can possibly maintain Dean was 100% when even in his own time virtually no one took on that lost cause.












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Alphard
4/23/2023 03:18:54 pm

I suppose you could bring in some of the hypocrisies. With all the anti-drag rhetoric going on, maybe MASH will finally get canceled. Corporal Klinger has been corrupting America's youth for generations. Bugs Bunny even longer.
No more Leave it to Beaver, Brady Bunch, or a significant portion of Bewitched.

'outside expert on gay history'

I was unaware of the existence of a Grand Wizard of Gayness. Does this person happen to own the rights to the likeness of the deceased actor? Is the likeness of the deceased actor considered public domain? Seems like you could be upsetting the apple cart of a money making industry. Would be similar to upsetting the Elvis machine.

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Thomas Landon link
4/23/2023 03:39:55 pm

Try UK publishers, maybe, the wind appears to be turning there. Good luck.

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Rock Knocker
4/23/2023 03:53:44 pm

I’m so sorry to hear this Jason, dispiriting indeed. However I am more distressed that you may decide to give up, for awhile at least. We both have had manuscripts rejected, and we know it’s part of the game. I’m sure that after some additional reflection you’ll reconsider. In the mean time know that corporate drones aside, your work is important to many. Stay strong.

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Joe Scales
4/24/2023 11:58:17 am

Newsflash:

Publishers might check out the twitter feed for writers they are considering...

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E.P. Grondine
4/24/2023 05:57:34 pm

I uppose there is amazon's print on demand service if all else fails. good luck

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Alphard
4/25/2023 01:04:01 pm

I'm not sure what I'm going to do for a cheap laugh anymore. Tucks no longer has a job. I'm going to miss the occasional picture of Tucks posted by Jason Colavito. Tucks always has a look on his face like he's playing with gas. Either a just farted smirk, or the slight shame of accidentally shitting himself. More often than not, he looks like he just shit himself.

I was surprised not to see a blog post of celebration.

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Kent
4/28/2023 04:22:27 am

Your fascination fascinates me. Tell us more about the soiling.

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Martin Cannon
4/25/2023 04:10:58 pm

Frankly, I find this report difficult to believe. I know little about Dean's sexuality beyond hearing the usual rumors when I lived in L.A. I will certainly bow to your expertise on that topic.

What I find difficult to believe is the claim that publishing houses would reject a Dean biography on that basis. These days, I think a publisher is more likely to reject a book that says Dean was straight. In fact, I think ANY biography of a male movie star will go unpublished unless it claims that said star was either gay or a sexist, racist monster.

If I wrote a biography of Kirk Douglas stating that he was a nice guy, it wouldn't get published. If I wrote a book stating that Kirk killed Jean Spangler, it WOULD be published -- even if my source of information was a tarot card reader.

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Jason Colavito link
4/26/2023 12:24:14 pm

Since 1975, each new biography of James Dean from a major publisher has been progressively "straighter," despite the increasing evidence to the contrary. This culminated in the last, the 2005 "official" biography, which excised all references to same-sex relationships and presented Dean as 100% heterosexual.

I can't begin to speculate why so many in publishing have such strong emotional reactions to James Dean, but his is the holy name that cannot be blasphemed.

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Kent
4/26/2023 04:29:18 pm

Few noticed or remember that Ed "Kookie" Byrnes the parking lot attendant from i/ 77 Sunset Strip /i openly acknowledged ("admitted" is kind of pejorative, don't you think?) that he ran an oral service station in his early days in Hollywood, and his clientele wasn't Hollywood housewives.

Of course by their own testimony a few Hell's Angels have done it too. Apparently there is a significant number of fellows who are fine with that sort of thing. It don't befront me.

Doc Rock
4/28/2023 11:33:49 am

I though the game plan was to do a book on post-WW2 panics over homosexuals, commies, and UFOs? If it has now narrowed down to a niche concerning whether a 50s icon was kon sa in terms of sexuality then might be time for another return to the niche press well?

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Jason Colavito link
4/28/2023 01:01:05 pm

The original version of the book met with universal rejection. Every publisher had the same response: UFOs are for crazy people and shouldn't be part of a serious book. They all liked the other material. The revised book is not about whether someone was gay; it's a narrative about the post-WWII gay panic told through the eyes of someone who struggled to navigate the trauma and confusion it created and who, in death, served as a rallying point in undoing it.

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Ralph
4/28/2023 05:22:26 pm

Right, because this version hasn’t been met with universal rejection.

Kent
4/28/2023 05:33:21 pm

Not sure I see the "rallying point in undoing it" but if you're book lays that out I'd love to read it.

Charles Nelson Reilly
Cesar Romero
Paul Lind
Victor Buono
Liberace - The Ultimate Flamer
Sal Mineo - not familiar to me but apparently a big deal
Obviously in retrospect Raymond Burr and Rock Hudson
Don't get me started on Mayors and Governors.
And of course Kate Hepburn.

https://www.autostraddle.com/10-old-hollywood-stars-who-enjoyed-scissoring-343227/

https://www.autostraddle.com/read-a-fcking-book-odd-girls-twilight-lovers-139706

https://www.autostraddle.com/1938-psa-warns-against-evil-lesbian-menaces-173196/

Doc Rock
4/28/2023 06:56:08 pm

Gay/queer/homosexual is used about a dozen times above including presenting your side of the story. While at the same time you are emphasizing avoiding assigning labels. While at the same time the outside reader seems to think that you were overzealous about asserting JD's gayness. It seems to me that whether you like it or not you are producing a book that in a very big way is about whether or not JD was gay.

Just my two cents worth that now pretty much exhausts my interest in any and all thing James Dean. As a senior colleague once told me about one of my projects, good luck with it whatever it is.

Jason Colavito link
4/29/2023 02:31:03 pm

I am getting a bit tired of people who haven't read my book complaining about what's in it. There was no "outside reader" since the publisher did not have the manuscript, only the proposal. A proposal is designed to sell a book, not to provide a full and substantive argument.

No serious writer has argued James Dean was 100% straight, at least not since 1962. There ought to be no controversy in following the consensus of every scholar and author save those in the direct employ of Warner Bros. or the Dean Estate.

Beyond that, if other people are getting mad trying to split hairs about exactly where on the Kinsey Scale he fell, it is of no relevance to the story I am telling. Gay, bisexual, pansexual, etc. -- these modern labels don't really apply and we have no way of saying which he would have chosen if living now. We can only describe what he said, did, and wrote.

Doc Rock
4/29/2023 03:33:42 pm

Outside gay expert that read and commented on the materials in the proposal= Outside reader.

I'm just pointing out that claiming to not be assigning labels when you repeatedly use one set of labels to describe a person's sexual activity who you say shouldn't be assigned a label perhaps creates problems. At least in the minds of potential publishers in this instance. But since you have elected to provide a small amount of information in the course of complaining about your publication woes in a forum with an active comments section you obviously may get comments that differ from if you had posted an entire manuscript. That's why I never liked serving as an outside reader for book projects based on anything less than having the whole manuscript laid out in front of me.

I'm now running on a deficit in terms of interest in analytical discussions of James Dean. But for some strange reason I do feel a strong urge to trot down to the liquor store for a six pack of Lone Star beer and then pop in my Giant DVD. Go figure.....

Again, good luck with it. Whatever it is.


Kent
4/29/2023 10:21:01 pm

"Just my two cents worth that now pretty much exhausts my interest in any and all thing James Dean. As a senior colleague once told me about one of my projects, good luck with it whatever it is."

Surely the imaginary pre-law strippers I mean waitresses must have an opinion?

Jason Colavito link
4/30/2023 08:52:49 am

Let me try one more time to clarify my point, Doc:

Liberace never announced his sexuality. Indeed, he went to court to prove he was straight, and won, which is far more than James Dean ever did. No one, however, complained that "Behind the Candelabra" was inappropriate because it depicted him in a relationship with a man, nor is there the least controversy about discussing him in terms of homosexuality.

When I say I don't assign labels, that means the label of "gay" or "bisexual." Not "straight."

The trouble amounts to what's popularly called "bisexual erasure," the refusal to accept that a man could have sex with both men and women, or that bisexuals are properly part of the queer community. In the 1950s, bisexuals were categorized as homosexuals. It's literally in the textbooks of the time.

I made all of this quite clear in my book proposal and in my book.

Kent
4/30/2023 07:29:56 pm

Liberace was straight and Alec Baldwin is qualified to handle firearms. And Anthony Warren reads two to five books a day every day. And OJ Simpson travels the world as a private detective and Chief Grondine revels in gay orgies with 7 foot tall Injuns. No cameras allowed.

Doc Rock
5/2/2023 09:42:52 pm

Ralph,

If you check his track record, Jason eventually gets his books published. So, universal rejection at this point doesn't necessarily mean what you probably think that it means.

You are likely as confused about the publication process as Kent is about job descriptions for females choosing to work outside of the home.

Jason Colavito link
5/3/2023 04:11:34 pm

So far, my record is almost 10 years. I started seeking a publisher for "The Mound Builder Myth" in 2011, and it was published in 2020. This book, in its current form, is nearing the one year mark, so it has a ways to go to beat that.

Alphard
5/4/2023 01:06:58 pm

"I am getting a bit tired of people who haven't read my book complaining about what's in it."

There has only been one consistent thing about your book. The sexual orientation of the deceased actor. UFO scare came and went as well as many other ideas. The only thing remaining consistent was a label for sexual orientation. There has been some very interesting tidbits along the way but they've never been pursued. At least not in blog posts or tweets.

[When I say I don't assign labels, that means the label of "gay" or "bisexual." Not "straight."]

Not sure what to make of that statement. The term "Queer Icon" certainly comes to mind. I don't recall exactly when you said it but, I'm sure Quote Master kent can pull it up. I had to look up "Twink". Had never thought about the slang meanings of some Hostess snack cakes. Cupcake, Twinkie, Ding Dong and let's not forget Zinger.

There is a very interesting way you could take this. Was Christopher playing the part of Sal? Very easily tied into many of your ideas and facts presented in tweets and blog posts. Sal supported himself selling that fantasy. Between your early tweets and a documentary I've seen about Sal, you could make a compelling case. Just make it hypothetical and word it like an EVD book to avoid any potential lawsuits. Remember: You are only asking questions.

Good luck pursuing new avenues of publication.


JOHN
4/30/2023 06:26:06 am

Is this the most important topic in the world?

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Rock Knocker
4/30/2023 12:20:43 pm

“Is this the most important topic in the world?”

Since this is Jason’s blog it just might be the most important topic in the world - to him. In spite of all the numerous trolling posts above, that’s what really matters


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JOHN
4/30/2023 04:22:14 pm

I was referring to the topic of the book, not the blog post.

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Rock Knocker
4/30/2023 11:33:19 pm

“I was referring to the topic of the book, not the blog post.”

So was I, after all they are the same. Perhaps you could suggest a new topic which is more important to him?

JOHN
5/1/2023 05:24:17 pm

US fertility rates are down by half if compared to 1955 when James Dean was alive. The rate is now well below replacement level. I would write a book about the importance of family values.


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