

During the 1950s and 1960s, Sam Steward (using the pseudonym Phil Andros) created numerous gay classics, his most famous being $tud. A "collector extraordinaire," Steward saved countless mementos from his past, maintaining a "stud file" of hundreds of cards written in code, detailing all his sexual experiences. Alfred Kinsey met Steward shortly after the publication of Sexual Behavior of the Human Male, and Steward’s file provided Kinsey with a wealth of information on gay men in the United States.