{"value"=>"<p>Mass's writings are arranged in three sections: Writings on AIDS, Essays and Reviews, and Books. This series contains both published and unpublished work. The section on AIDS contains a copy of his first report on the epidemic, which appeared in the New York Native in 1981, and several editions of the booklet, <span class=\"title\">Medical Answers About AIDS</span>, and its predecessors, which he wrote for the GMHC in 1984 and regularly updated. There are also copies of other articles he wrote for the Native, a book manuscript \"Chronicles of Violaceous Death\" which was to contain his articles on AIDS and some other health-related topics, and printed matter and clippings which he collected about the epidemic.</p> <p>The essays and reviews section contains drafts, typescripts, and published copies of his shorter writings, most of which appeared in the gay press. There is a typescript of his unproduced screenplay, \"Confessions of a Mask,\" about author Yukio Mishima. This subseries includes material relating to Mass's column \"Bears and Heath,\" which was regularly published in <span class=\"title\">American Bear</span> and <span class=\"title\">A Bear's Life</span> and an article on Hepatitis C for <span class=\"title\">New York</span> magazine. Also contains research materials, holograph notes, and drafts for a project entitled \"Health and Health Care of the Professional Singer in the United States\". Also included are short, autobiographical pieces like \"Entering Lawrence.\" In addition, there are typescripts of talks Mass gave at conferences and symposiums on matters related to healthcare and homosexuality.</p> <p>Book related materials include notes, proposals, synopses, drafts, typescripts, author's proofs, and uncorrected book proofs of his autobiographical work <span class=\"title\">Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite</span> (originally titled <span class=\"title\">Synchronicities</span>). Also present are drafts and published copies of the chapters as they appeared in <span class=\"title\">Christopher Street</span>. The series also contains materials about his two-volume collection of interviews conducted between 1979 and 1989, <span class=\"title\">Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution</span>. These include drafts of Mass's introduction to the book, comments about the manuscript by Martin Duberman and Jeffrey Escoffier, correspondence with the publisher, Haworth Press, copies of Haworth's catalogs, publicity materials and advertisements for the book, and clippings of the reviews and notices it received. Following these materials are files for sixteen of the interviews Mass conducted for the book, including one with Terry Stein that was not published. The files, which vary in size and completeness, include transcripts of the interview, correspondence with the interviewees, lists of the questions to be asked, responses by interviewees who received the questions in advance, copies of their publications or clippings about them, and Mass's notes on them and their work. Audiotapes of the interviews with Martin Duberman, John Boswell, Rosa von Praunheim, Paul Schrader, Richard Plant, John d'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, Ned Rorem, and George Heymont can be found in Series V. Artifacts and audiovisual materials.</p> <p>Additionally, there are files on each contributor for <span class=\"title\">We Must Love One Another Or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer</span> and transcripts of an interview between Mass and Kramer, with holograph corrections. There is also correspondence regarding the controversies surrounding Michelangelo Signorile, a contributor in the book, who was publicly criticized by the group Sex Panic. Material for Mass's unpublished book, <span class=\"title\">Musical Closets</span> includes transcripts of an interview with Lou Harrison.</p>"}