{"id":9371,"date":"2025-03-12T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/robert-mapplethorpe\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:16:45","slug":"robert-mapplethorpe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/robert-mapplethorpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mapplethorpe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Mapplethorpe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Around 1970, Carroll moved into the loft Robert Mapplethorpe and\u00a0Patti Smith<\/a>\u00a0were sharing. Patricia Morrisroe, in her biography of Mapplethorpe, writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Mapplethorpe reacted with surprising equanimity to Carroll’s invasion of their privacy and displayed no outward signs of jealousy. He and Smith had grown accustomed to leading separate sexual lives, and he did not perceive Carroll as a threat. In fact, he enjoyed his company, and the trio of roommates spent spring evenings strolling around Times Square, where they revelled in the whistles and catcalls from men who mistakenly took them for male prostitutes” (82). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Carroll describes these outings in “The Cancer Hall of Fame” in Forced Entries<\/a><\/em>, in which Mapplethorpe is “Roger.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around 1970, Carroll moved into the loft Robert Mapplethorpe and\u00a0Patti Smith\u00a0were sharing. Patricia Morrisroe, in her biography of Mapplethorpe, writes: “Mapplethorpe reacted with surprising equanimity to Carroll’s invasion of their privacy and displayed no outward signs of jealousy. He and Smith had grown accustomed to leading separate sexual lives, and he did not perceive Carroll … Continue reading Robert Mapplethorpe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9419,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-9371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2r9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9376,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/patti-smith\/","url_meta":{"origin":9371,"position":0},"title":"Patti Smith","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"March 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim and Patti Carroll met Patti Smith in 1970 and they ended up living together for a while; Carroll moved in with Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe; Patti and Robert had been a couple until Mapplethorpe determined he was gay. 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Burroughs\u00a0| Joseph Campbell | \u00a0Tom Clark\u00a0|\u00a0Kurt Cobain\u00a0|\u00a0Salvador Dali\u00a0|\u00a0Edwin Denby\u00a0|\u00a0Bob Dylan\u00a0|\u00a0Lawrence Ferlenghetti\u00a0|\u00a0Allen Ginsberg\u00a0|\u00a0John Giorno\u00a0|\u00a0Richard Hell\u00a0|\u00a0Lenny Kaye\u00a0|\u00a0Jack Kerouac\u00a0|\u00a0Gerard Malanga\u00a0|\u00a0Ray Manzarek\u00a0|\u00a0Robert Mapplethorpe\u00a0|\u00a0Michael McClure\u00a0|\u00a0Henry Miller\u00a0|\u00a0Paul Morrissey\u00a0|\u00a0Forrest \"Frosty\" Myers\u00a0|\u00a0Phil Ochs\u00a0|\u00a0Frank O'Hara\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Orlovsky\u00a0|\u00a0Lou Reed\u00a0|\u00a0Arthur Rimbaud\u00a0|\u00a0Larry Rivers\u00a0|\u00a0Patti Smith\u00a0|\u00a0Robert Smithson\u00a0|\u00a0Terry Southern\u00a0|\u00a0Velvet Undergound\u00a0|\u00a0Anne Waldman\u00a0|\u00a0Andrea Warhol\u00a0|\u00a0Andy Warhol\u00a0 Index:\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4168,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/jim-carrolls-interviews\/jim-carroll-past-present-poetry\/","url_meta":{"origin":9371,"position":3},"title":"Jim Carroll: Past & Present Poetry","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Interview by Douglas A. 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