Russo, Vito
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2654
13.19 linear feet (36 boxes); 1.41 Megabytes (249 computer files); 230 audio files, 19 video files
The papers reflect Russo's personal life and career as a writer, lecturer, film historian, and gay rights and AIDS activist. They include correspondence, journals, appointment books, writings by and about Russo, electronic records, photographs,...
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The papers reflect Russo's personal life and career as a writer, lecturer, film historian, and gay rights and AIDS activist. They include correspondence, journals, appointment books, writings by and about Russo, electronic records, photographs, sound and video recordings, ephemera, and posthumous material.
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Brown, Howard, 1924-1975
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 415
6.6 linear feet (13 boxes)
Howard J. Brown (1924-1975), a physician, was an innovative health planner and advocate for the gay rights movement. After working with several projects in New York City providing comprehensive health care and neighborhood medical services, he...
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Howard J. Brown (1924-1975), a physician, was an innovative health planner and advocate for the gay rights movement. After working with several projects in New York City providing comprehensive health care and neighborhood medical services, he served as the City's Health Services Administrator from 1966 to 1968. He then became a professor of public health at New York University. In 1973 he became active in the gay rights movement and helped organize the National Gay Task Force. His book, Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives (published posthumously in 1976) described his life and discussed homosexuality in general. Collection contains correspondence, speeches, personal ephemera, drafts of writings, and other materials Brown collected relating to medicine or homosexuality. Bulk of the correspondence, 1942-1974, consists of letters congratulating Brown upon his appointment as Health Services Administrator and additional letters, 1973-1974, concerning his activities on behalf of gay rights. Brown's speeches, 1966-1974, are all about medicine or homosexuality. Personal ephemera includes certificates, awards, news clippings, photographs, student notes and papers, and 1966 appointment book. Other papers consist of teaching materials on public health; clippings, programs and articles relating to Brown's involvement with gay rights; drafts and notes about his book; and research materials on homosexuality.
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Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4825
2.5 linear feet (6 boxes)
The Before Stonewall production files date primarily from 1982 to 1984 and contain files relating to the making of the documentary film,
Before Stonewall, which explored, through personal stories, historical footage and...
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The Before Stonewall production files date primarily from 1982 to 1984 and contain files relating to the making of the documentary film,
Before Stonewall, which explored, through personal stories, historical footage and photographs, the history of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the United States prior to 1969.
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Jay, Karla
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1554
27.68 linear feet (59 boxes, 1 tube); 82 audio files, 49 cassettes
Karla Jay is a lesbian feminist activist, author, and former professor of English at Pace University (New York). The collection contains correspondence, typescripts, and other items chiefly documenting Jay's work as a professor of English and as...
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Karla Jay is a lesbian feminist activist, author, and former professor of English at Pace University (New York). The collection contains correspondence, typescripts, and other items chiefly documenting Jay's work as a professor of English and as author and coeditor of books on the experiences of lesbians and gay men. The bulk of the collection pertains to her work as a writer and academic and includes some documentation of her activities as a pioneer feminist and lesbian activist with the consciousness raising group Redstockings and the Gay Liberation Front. The correspondence includes letters from many prominent writers and gay and lesbian rights activists, her literary agent, publishers, contributors to her anthologies, and alternative presses, as well as with academic and professional organizations. The collection also includes typescript drafts of the text of
The Gay Report (which she co-authored with Allen Young) and the questionnaires returned by lesbian respondents; drafts of Jay's dissertation and other writings; slides; and audio recordings, chiefly of interviews with Jay or conducted by her from the 1970s to the 1990s. Interviewees include Rita Mae Brown, Andrea Dworkin, Jeanette Foster, Barbara Grier, Jill Johnston, and Anaïs Nin.
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Edwards, Scott (Bassist)
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18792
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Correspondence between activist Scott Edwards and various American politicians regarding gay rights issues; correspondence regarding the International Gay Archive (IGA), a forerunner of the International Gay Information Center; and photographs of...
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Correspondence between activist Scott Edwards and various American politicians regarding gay rights issues; correspondence regarding the International Gay Archive (IGA), a forerunner of the International Gay Information Center; and photographs of the Gay Atheists League marching in Washington, DC (1979).
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Donaldson, Stephen, 1946-1996
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 824
The Stephen Donaldson Papers document the varied career and tumultuous personal history of the writer and activist. The date span of the papers is 1965-1998. They include manuscripts, typescripts, and publication tearsheets of Donaldson's...
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The Stephen Donaldson Papers document the varied career and tumultuous personal history of the writer and activist. The date span of the papers is 1965-1998. They include manuscripts, typescripts, and publication tearsheets of Donaldson's writings, editorial and administrative papers for the unpublished
Concise Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, personal and professional correspondence, news clippings and printed material, photographs, audiotapes and a few items of clothing and ephemera. The Stephen Donaldson Papers are an important resource for the study of gay and bisexual activism, prisoners and prison life and counter-cultural movements from the 1960s-90s.
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Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving)
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 250
1.89 linear feet (5 boxes)
Arthur Bell was a journalist, writer for the VILLAGE VOICE, and gay rights activist. His papers include research notes, scripts and clippings of articles, minutes, memoranda and correspondence. The papers reflect his career as a free-lance...
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Arthur Bell was a journalist, writer for the VILLAGE VOICE, and gay rights activist. His papers include research notes, scripts and clippings of articles, minutes, memoranda and correspondence. The papers reflect his career as a free-lance journalist reporting on the gay liberation movement. Included is a script of an interview with Christopher Isherwood and papers relating to his activities as chairman of the publicity committee of the Gay Activists Alliance.
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Mattachine Society of New York
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1911
10 linear feet (14 boxes)
The records include correspondence of the principal officers including Elver Barker, Robert Burdick, Curtis Dewees, Julian Hodges, Michael Kotis, and Richard Leitsch and collateral papers including minutes, memoranda, reports, scripts,...
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The records include correspondence of the principal officers including Elver Barker, Robert Burdick, Curtis Dewees, Julian Hodges, Michael Kotis, and Richard Leitsch and collateral papers including minutes, memoranda, reports, scripts, photographs, and printed ephemera. The records reflect the origin and development of the homophile movement in America especially in New York and of the struggle to achive through peaceful means the the social integration of gays and the removal of legal sanctions discriminating against gays in housing, employment and assembly.
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Manford, Morty
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1858
22.5 linear feet (59 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Morty Manford (1950-1992) was an activist and key strategist in the early days of the gay rights movement, a Legal Aid lawyer, and an Assistant Attorney General of New York State. While an undergraduate at Columbia University in 1971, he founded...
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Morty Manford (1950-1992) was an activist and key strategist in the early days of the gay rights movement, a Legal Aid lawyer, and an Assistant Attorney General of New York State. While an undergraduate at Columbia University in 1971, he founded Gay People at Columbia, one of the first gay campus groups in the country. Subsequently, he began writing about the goals of the gay movement, speaking on college campuses and at gay clubs, and organizing protest demonstrations, parades, and rallies in support of gay rights legislation in New York City and throughout the United States. Among the many gay rights organizations he co-founded were the Gay Activists Alliance, which strove to bring gays together as a political force, the National Coalition of Gay Activists, which publicized and coordinated rallies and demonstrations on a national scale, and the clandestine Study Group, a New York-based think-tank which worked with the gay infrastructure in the state and local political establishments to influence political and public opinion and promote the state-wide activities of the gay rights movement. The papers of Morty Manford span the years 1962 to 1986 and chiefly document his activities as a leading activist and ideologist of the gay and lesbian rights movement. The collection consists of correspondence with other gay activists, gay organizations, and politicians; name and subject files; writings by Manford and others on gay and other subjects; photographs, sound recordings, artifacts, and personal papers.
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Gay Activists Alliance
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1121
The Gay Activists Alliance was founded in New York City in 1969 as a militant, non-violent organization dedicated exclusively to the attainment of civil and social rights for gays. The records reflect the activities of the organization.
International Gay Information Center
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2017
208.5 linear feet (135 cartons, 103 boxes)
The collection documents the gay liberation movement in New York City and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Included are records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn, Gay Switchboard of New York, the Mattachine Society...
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The collection documents the gay liberation movement in New York City and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Included are records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn, Gay Switchboard of New York, the Mattachine Society Inc. of New York, and records of miscellaneous organizations including Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc., and the periodicals Gaysweek, and New York Native. Personal papers include papers of Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr., Arthur Bell, Billy Wilder Blackwell, Perry Brass, Robert Clement, Don Jackson, Walter Porczak, and Sam Staggs. There are also miscellaneous records of IGIC, including correspondence, minutes, memoranda, photographs of gay rights demonstrations, scripts of plays by gay writers, and printed ephemera issued by gay, lesbian and AIDS organizations in the United States.
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International Gay Information Center
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1473
These materials consist of audio tapes, videotapes and films that were culled from the organizational records and personal papers collected by the International Gay Information Center. They include audio recordings of interviews, meetings,...
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These materials consist of audio tapes, videotapes and films that were culled from the organizational records and personal papers collected by the International Gay Information Center. They include audio recordings of interviews, meetings, lectures, radio and television shows, and live performances. There are also videotapes from the Open Channel cable show and several gay erotic films.
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Gay Alliance of Brooklyn
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1122
.5 linear feet (1 box)
The Gay Alliance of Brooklyn was founded in 1971 by members of the Gay Activists Alliance in order to establish in their own borough an organization of gays and lesbians dedicated to the attainment of civil rights for gays. It sponsored films,...
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The Gay Alliance of Brooklyn was founded in 1971 by members of the Gay Activists Alliance in order to establish in their own borough an organization of gays and lesbians dedicated to the attainment of civil rights for gays. It sponsored films, forums, and dances and published (irregularly) a monthly newsletter. At its peak it claimed a membership of over 300. The organization appears to have been dissolved in early 1973. Included are minutes of general meetings and of the governing board, constitution and by-laws, and records of various committees including community relations, dance, membership, and newsletter committees.
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Gay Switchboard of New York, Inc
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1129
7.25 linear feet (22 cartons)
The Gay Switchboard of New York, Inc. was founded in New York City in 1971 to provide a free telephone information service for the homosexual community. The switchboard provided information on medical, legal, and social services available to the...
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The Gay Switchboard of New York, Inc. was founded in New York City in 1971 to provide a free telephone information service for the homosexual community. The switchboard provided information on medical, legal, and social services available to the gay community, and also maintained listings of gay bars, bathhouses, etc. Although generally apolitical, the switchboard did maintain close ties with other gay organizations ans periodicals in New York City and around the country. The records cover the period 1972-1983, although the switchboard remained in operation after that time. Administrative records, telephone logs, and internal and external ephemera generated by the Gay Switchboard of New York, Inc., for the period between March 1972 and July 1983. The logs reveal the social, political, and recreational concerns of the New York gay community before the impact of AIDS.
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Fierce Pussy (Organization)
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 995
.2 linear feet (1 box)
Fierce Pussy is a lesbian artist/activist public art collective formed in 1991 in New York City. Work of the collective focuses on issues of lesbian visibility and lesbian and gay rights. Collection consists of approximately thirty works by Fierce...
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Fierce Pussy is a lesbian artist/activist public art collective formed in 1991 in New York City. Work of the collective focuses on issues of lesbian visibility and lesbian and gay rights. Collection consists of approximately thirty works by Fierce Pussy (with a few duplicates). Most items are 11" x 17" posters created to be "wheatpasted" in outdoor locations in New York City. Also, a few color-xeroxes and stickers. Messages on the posters and stickers pertain to lesbian and gay rights and visibility, and to AIDS.
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Eddey, Roy
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18242
1.09 linear feet (3 boxes)
The Roy Eddey
Motive papers mainly document the history of
Motive as a magazine of gay liberation from 1964 to 1972, in particular the creation of one of the two final editions of the magazine...
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The Roy Eddey
Motive papers mainly document the history of
Motive as a magazine of gay liberation from 1964 to 1972, in particular the creation of one of the two final editions of the magazine in 1971, devoted to gay male issues.
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Christopher Street That New Magazine
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 541
6.05 linear feet (8 boxes)
Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc. (later That New Magazine, Inc.) was founded in New York City in 1976 by Charles Ortleb for the purpose of publishing CHRISTOPHER STREET (subtitled THAT NEW MAGAZINE), a monthly literary magazine for the...
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Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc. (later That New Magazine, Inc.) was founded in New York City in 1976 by Charles Ortleb for the purpose of publishing CHRISTOPHER STREET (subtitled THAT NEW MAGAZINE), a monthly literary magazine for the gay community featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, news, book reviews and photography. The bulk of the records consists of authors' scripts and galley proofs. The authors' scripts of fiction and nonfiction were submitted by literary agents and publishers for review or serialization in CHRISTOPHER STREET. The galleys consist of articles considered for publication in THE CHRISTOPHER STREET READER (c1983) and those published in APHRODISIAC, FICTION FROM CHRISTOPHER STREET (1982). The monographs consist of scholarly articles on gays, lesbians and homosexuality.
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Kantrowitz, Arnie, 1940-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1616
23.15 linear feet (54 boxes, 1 tube); 7 audio files, 12 video files, 1 vhs tape
Arnie Kantrowitz is a writer, educator, and gay activist who was integrally involved in several gay activist groups in the 1970s and 1980s including the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Christopher...
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Arnie Kantrowitz is a writer, educator, and gay activist who was integrally involved in several gay activist groups in the 1970s and 1980s including the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee. The Arnie Kantrowitz papers date from 1951 to 2008 and contain personal papers and organizational records chiefly reflecting Kantrowitz's activities as a writer, gay rights activist, and English professor. The collection consists of correspondence from friends, fellow writers, and readers; diaries and notebooks; records concerning his involvement in various gay rights organizations; files relating to his teaching career at the College of Staten Island; notes, drafts and manuscripts of his published and unpublished writing; sound and video recordings; and personal memorabilia.
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Fishman, Israel David, 1938-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1012
5.46 linear feet (14 boxes)
Israel David Fishman (1938-) is best known for founding the Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL), a section of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Libraries Association. His papers document the early years of TFGL, Fishman's...
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Israel David Fishman (1938-) is best known for founding the Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL), a section of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Libraries Association. His papers document the early years of TFGL, Fishman's collaboration with other activists, and the issues surrounding being an openly gay professional in the late-1960s and early-1970s.
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Pickett, Harold Edward, 1947-1988
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2423
Harold Edward Pickett (1947-1988) was a gay rights activist, journalist, poet,and editor. In 1980 he founded
New York City News, a newsmagazine for the gay and lesbian community, and was editor/publisher until it ceased...
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Harold Edward Pickett (1947-1988) was a gay rights activist, journalist, poet,and editor. In 1980 he founded
New York City News, a newsmagazine for the gay and lesbian community, and was editor/publisher until it ceased publication in 1985. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, files of Pickett and James B. Ferguson, photographs, realia, and printed matter.
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Weinstein, Jeff
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18800
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Two letters to journalist Jeff Weinstein pertaining to gay activism.
Bockman, Philip
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18786
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Essay titled "Stonewall 25: After a quarter century of gay liberation, can we say the words?" by Philip Bockman of New York City. Discusses his experience of the 1969 Stonewall Riots; his coming of age as a gay man in college in Grand Rapids,...
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Essay titled "Stonewall 25: After a quarter century of gay liberation, can we say the words?" by Philip Bockman of New York City. Discusses his experience of the 1969 Stonewall Riots; his coming of age as a gay man in college in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in New York City in the 1960s; and his reflections on the gay liberation movement on the 25th anniversary of Stonewall.
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Vincenz, Lilli
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 6236
2 audio files, 1 video file
Lilli Vincenz is psychotherapist and gay rights activist. The recordings include an audiotape of a 1973 interview with Vincenz regarding the weekly Gay Women's Open House (GWOH) which she held in her home and VHS copy of two films: footage of the...
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Lilli Vincenz is psychotherapist and gay rights activist. The recordings include an audiotape of a 1973 interview with Vincenz regarding the weekly Gay Women's Open House (GWOH) which she held in her home and VHS copy of two films: footage of the second to last Reminder Day Picket in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, July 4, 1968 (7 minutes) followed by footage of the first Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade in New York City, June 28, 1970 (11.5 minutes)
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Katz, Jonathan, 1938-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1621
80.83 linear feet (189 boxes, 20 tubes, 1 item). 2.9 gigabytes (490 computer files)
Jonathan Ned Katz (1938 - ) is an independent historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. His father, Bernard Katz (1901-1970), an artist and designer who worked in advertising, was an independent historian of...
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Jonathan Ned Katz (1938 - ) is an independent historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. His father, Bernard Katz (1901-1970), an artist and designer who worked in advertising, was an independent historian of African-American history and jazz music. Jonathan Katz's mother, Phyllis Brownstone Katz, was a magazine editor and co-founder of the Jane Street Community Garden. The Jonathan Ned Katz papers reflect his life and career as an historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. They most heavily document Katz's research and writings on LGBTQ history and activism, and encompass his personal life, family, friends, and the LGBTQ liberation movement. The collection also contains the papers of his parents, Bernard Katz and Phyllis Brownstone Katz.
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