James Fugaté

Life Fugaté was born in an oilfield boom town In 1942, he joined the United States Navy. After World War II ended, he worked in advertising until publishing his first novel, Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel, in 1950. breaking the stereotype of other gay novels typical of the time. In 1952, Fugaté voluntarily returned to active duty with the Navy, and was stationed in Alaska.

Fugaté worked as a contributing writer to ONE, Der Kreis, and Mattachine Review, writing about gay experiences and issues. He later worked in newspapers in Kansas before moving to New York in the early 70s. He finally returned to Oklahoma, where he worked for ten years in a hospital before dying of liver cancer in 1995.

Works Under the pseudonym James Barr: Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel (1950) Derricks (1951) Game of Fools (1954) The Occasional Man (1966) Other Than a Man (1971)