Found matches for Perry Brass in 5 collections.

Perry Brass, author and playwright, was born (Sept. 15, 1947) in Savannah, Georgia. He attended high school there and afterwards studied fine arts (for one year) at the University of Georgia. From 1965 to 1968 he was employed in the advertising field in New York City. During the early 1970's while a student at New York University he became active in the struggle for gay rights. He wrote numerous articles for the gay press. Some of his poems were also published in Come Out!: Selections from the Radical Gay Liberation Newspaper (N.Y., Times Change Press, c1970). The Perry Brass papers (1968-circa 1974) consist of a private journal (1971-1972); literary and college notebooks; scripts of his poems and miscellaneous writings; and a few photographs, sketches and drawings. less

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. less

Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism. The collective produced a short work, Testing the Limits : NYC, in 1987 and a feature-length documentary Voices from the Front in 1991. The collective's final production was a four-part documentary The Question of Equality which chronicled the gay and lesbian struggle for civil rights. The Testing the Limits Records consist of both organizational records and video footage shot by the collective. less

Adolph Simon Ochs was an American newspaperman and the publisher of the New York Times for almost forty years, from 1896 to 1935. Under his leadership, the paper acquired an international reputation for objective and trustworthy reporting. The collection contains correspondence, letterpress books, scrapbooks, financial records, blueprints, maps, land surveys, photographs, honorary degrees and awards presented to Ochs, and other material related to his life and career. The main areas of focus in the collection are the Chattanooga Times, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the Philadelphia Times, Ochs' continuing interest in the city of Chattanooga, and personal and family matters. less

Robert Giard (1939-2002) was an American photographer best known for his portraits of LGBTQ+ writers, artists, and activists. Giard kept written records of his photo shoot sessions with sitters, memorializing in detail his impression of each individual person and the experience of photographing them. The Robert Giard notebooks, which date from 1986 to 1999, comprise seven notebooks containing Giard's portrait session notes. less