36 People Who Straight-Up (Hehe, Pun Intended) Forgot Gay People Exist

According to OP, the substance is an excerpt from Wild Heart: A Life by Suzanne Rodriguez, which is an autobiography of writer and socialite Natalie Clifford Barney. It reads: 

"To Pauline's surprise, Études and préludes received a favorable invited from critics.* Because she had published the publication nether the ambiguous sanction 'R. Vivien,' readers didn't recognize they were speechmaking sapphic verse, and Pauline received instrumentality letters addressed to 'Messr. R. Vivien.' On 1 juncture she attended a poesy lecture with Natalie successful which writer Charles Fuster earnestly praised Études. When helium described its writer arsenic a young antheral consumed with passionateness for his archetypal mistress, Natalie and Pauline ran from the room, collapsing with giggles erstwhile they were safely away."