Fugaté died on March 28, 1995 in Claremore, Oklahoma.

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Although Quatrefoil was welcomed by gay activists on its original publication, it seems less positive to today's reader. As Samuel Steward wrote in his introduction to the 1982 edition, "The world of Froelich and Danelaw is . . . somewhat puzzling to the modern reader who comes across it thirty years later. He finds it difficult to understand. Yet here laid out in Quatrefoil is a graphic and accurate picture of the secrecy and concealment that was necessary in those days."

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