Purusha Larkin

Purusha Androgyne Larkin 17 January 1934 22 June 1988 born Peter Allison Larkin and also known as Christopher Larkin was an American author and filmmaker Larkin was born as Peter Allison Larkin on January 17 1934 in St Louis Missouri After graduating from John Burroughs School Larkin studied literature philosophy and religion at Rollins College and University of Notre Dame He devoted ten years to Roman Catholic religious and monastic life during which he obtained a masters degree in theology from the University of Toronto and served as a theologian and counselor at Yale Universitys St Thomas More House In the late 1960s Larkin withdrew from religious life and moved to New York City Using the stage name Christopher Larkin he produced and directed the semiautobiographical 1974 film A Very Natural Thing The film is considered to be the first commercially distributed feature film about gay life made by a gay man Following the movies release Larkin traveled extensively around the world before settling in Ocean Beach San Diego in 1977 In San Diego Larkin began to explore tantric sexuality meditation massage body modification and fisting Around this time he adopted the name Purusha Androgyne Larkin In 1981 he published The Divine Androgyne According To Purusha Larkin took his own life on June 22 1988 after two years of struggling with HIVAIDS Description above from the Wikipedia article Purusha Larkin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia