Duncan Fallowell

Part Beat, part hippy, part punk: the gay life of John Giorno

In a posthumously published memoir, the performance poet recalls his affairs with William Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns among others

John Giorno poses in 1991 at the Bunker, William Burroughs’s apartment on the Bowery, New York. Getty images

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