{"value"=>"<p>This series contains documents relating to Kantrowitz's activities as a professor of English at the College of Staten Island, as a writer, and as a gay rights activist. The professional materials include publishing correspondence and contracts, 1982-2001; teaching files, 1970-2008; and files documenting Kantrowitz’s involvement with the National Writers Union.</p> <p>The teaching materials chiefly concern courses he taught (boxes 38 and 39) and his applications for promotion (boxes 41 and 45). Included are curriculum vitae, faculty evaluation reports, committee involvement, conference attendance, grant applications and proposals. A file of letters from students, 1971-1992, found in box 7, contains responses to Kantrowitz's open discussion of his homosexuality in his classes and in presentations to other classes.</p> <p>The organizational materials include files he kept as an officer of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and as a panelist at the Gay Academic Union 1974 annual meeting. GAA records include carbon copies of meeting minutes, May-December 1970, and executive committee minutes, September-December, 1970 as well as correspondence, notes, flyers, newsletters, name and address lists and other documents concerning the planning of the GAA 25th reunion in 1994.</p> <p>The Gay Academic Union materials relate to the 1974 annual meeting keynote session panel on gay and lesbian separatism, including Kantrowitz's notes for his talk, his response to a call for conference papers, two letters from George Whitmore of the Program Committee, and a copy of the conference program.</p> <p>The records of the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee, which later became Heritage of Pride, concern the plans for the 1976 Gay Pride parade in New York City. Included are copies of Kantrowitz's correspondence as secretary, holograph meeting notes, original typescripts and photocopies of Steering Committee minutes and attachments, attendance sheets, and related documents submitted to the Committee.</p> <p>Kantrowitz was a founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (originally the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League) and acted as secretary and member of the Steering Committee. His files, November 1985-June 1986, contain photocopies of Executive and Steering Committee minutes, articles of incorporation, by-laws, and copies of treasurer's reports.</p> <p>A file on the New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 1992-2005, documents Kantrowitz’s frequent service as a juror in the festival.</p>"}