[2] Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: from World War II to the Present Day (2000), pages 421-22. But perhaps the public's first knowledge of this fact is an infamous television interview. Following the Chicago Police attack on demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention, Vidal debated William F. Buckley on ABC on 28 August 1968. Buckley took the side of the police, and Vidal that of the demonstrators. The debate ended sour with Vidal sparring, "As far as I am concerned, the only pro or crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself." Buckley interrupted, "Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered." Recounted in Gore Vidal, "A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley, Jr.", Esquire, September 1969.
Father: Gene Vidal
Mother: Nina Gore (alcoholic)
Boyfriend: Jimmie Trimble (d. 1-Jun-1945, Battle of Iwo Jima)
Slept with: Jack Kerouac
High School: St. Albans School, Washington, DC
High School: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
The Times Literary Supplement Contributor
Academy of Achievement (2006)
America First Committee
The Independent Institute Advisory Board
Institute for Policy Studies Senior Scholar
National Secular Society Honorary Associate
National Book Award for Nonfiction 1993 for United States: Essays 1952-1992
Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Episode in a TV Series, Suspense, "Smoke" (1954)
Libel lawsuit filed by William F. Buckley (1968), dropped (1971)
Knee Replacement
Risk Factors: Obesity
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Salinger (5-Sep-2013) · Himself
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (18-Apr-2013) · Himself
Shrink (5-Feb-2009) · George Charles
Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 (15-Jun-2008) · Himself
Obscene (9-Sep-2007) · Himself
The U.S. vs John Lennon (31-Aug-2006) · Himself
One Bright Shining Moment (16-Sep-2005) · Himself
Inside Deep Throat (11-Feb-2005) · Himself
Why We Fight (2005) · Himself
Gattaca (24-Oct-1997) · Director Josef
Shadow Conspiracy (25-Jan-1997)
The Celluloid Closet (13-Sep-1995) · Himself
With Honors (29-Apr-1994) · Pitkannan
Bob Roberts (4-Sep-1992)
Author of books:
Williwaw (1946, novel)
The City and the Pillar (1948, novel)
Julian (1964, novel)
Washington, D.C. (1967, novel)
Myra Breckenridge (1968, novel)
Reflections on a Sinking Ship (1969, essays)
Burr (1973, novel)
1876 (1976, novel)
Creation (1982, novel)
The Second American Revolution (1982, essays)
Lincoln (1984, novel)
Empire (1987, novel)
Armageddon (1987, essays)
Hollywood (1990, novel)
Live from Golgotha (1992, novel)
Screening History (1992, essays)
United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993, essays)
Palimpsest (1995, memoir)
The Smithsonian Institution (1998, novel)
The Golden Age (2000, novel)
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001, essays)
Wrote plays:
Visit to a Small Planet (1955)
The Best Man (1960)
AKA Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr.