{"value"=>"<p>The personal papers series contain clippings, ephemera, photographs, sketches, greeting cards and artifacts saved by Kantrowitz. Included are press clippings and other printed material about Kantrowitz or in which he is mentioned; cards from his life partner Larry Mass; documents and memorabilia of his two closest friends, Vito Russo and Jim Owles; clippings and notes about Cary Yurman, a friend who set off a bomb in Sir Harry's bar in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; and a box of gay liberation movement buttons.</p> <p>Files on Vito Russo are found in boxes 32 and 51 and tube 1 and include copies of Russo’s published essays and interviews, excerpts and transcripts of selected passages from Russo’s journals, and posters of film events Russo hosted.</p> <p>Kantrowitz also collected fliers, mailings, and calendars from private sex clubs devoted to gay sadomasochism, the leather scene, and bear subculture, which can be found in box 52.</p>"}