Jonathan Ned Katz papers 1947-2004

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Jonathan Ned Katz papers 1947-2004

The Jonathan Ned Katz Papers include correspondence, writings, research notes, audiotapes, moving picture films, and textile designs. They reflect Katz's personal life and career as author, playwright, gay rights activist, teacher, textile designer, and as chronicler and historian of the gay, lesbian and African-American experience in the United States.

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Jay, Karla, 1947-

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Karla Jay (born February 22, 1947) is a distinguished professor emerita at Pace University, where she taught English and directed the women's and gender studies program between 1974 and 2009. A pioneer in the field of lesbian and gay studies, she is widely published. Jay was born Karla Jayne Berlin in Brooklyn, New York, to Rhoda and Abraham Berlin, who worked for a dunnage company on the Red Hook (Brooklyn) docks. Raised in a non-observant, largely secular Jewish home, she attended the Berke...

Senelick, Laurence

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Rorem, Ned, 1923-

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Composer and author. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905487 Commissioned by Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California. Composed 1956. First performance La Jolla, California, 5 August 1956, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor. Dedicated to Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Fr...

Grier, Edward F., 1917-2004

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Grier received his A.B. from Pennsylvania in 1938, his M.A. from Columbia in 1939, and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania in 1949. He joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in the Department of English in 1951, reaching full Professor status in 1962. He retired in 1984. From the guide to the Personal Papers of Edward F. Grier, 1951-1984, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives) ...

Katz family

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Kight, Morris, 1919-2003

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Born in Texas, Kight was an early advocate of integration; involved with Southern Christian Leadership Conference; graduated, US Career Service Training School, 1942; arrived in LA, 1957, beginning career as "underground gay liberationist"; in 1967 member of Dow Action Committee, opposing defoliants; spokesperson in the Gay Liberation Front of Los Angeles; helped found Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade Committee; co-founder Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center; member of California State Democra...

Bérubé, Allan

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Schwarz, Judith

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Duberman, Martin B.

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Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York. He wrote biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and Paul Robeson as well as historical studies, plays, essays, and reviews. His plays include In White America (1963) about the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and civil rights. Since 1972 he has been active in th...

Gerber, Henry, 1892-1972

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Hay, Harry

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Gibson, David

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Bell, Alan P. (Alan Paul), 1932-2002

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Voeller, Bruce R.

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Activist. From the description of Reminiscences of Bruce Voeller : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574628 A biologist, researcher, and founder of the Mariposa Education and Research Foundation, Voeller died from AIDS-related complications on February 13, 1994 at his home in Topanga, Calif. Voeller was perhaps best known for coining the acronym AIDS for "acquired immune deficiency syndrome," a term he used...

Katz, Jonathan

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Jonathan Ned Katz (1938 - ), author, playwright, historian, teacher, gay rights advocate, and textile designer, was born in New York City, the son of Bernard Katz (1902-1970), an advertising executive, and Phyllis Brownstone Katz, a magazine editor. His grandfather on his mother's side, Abraham Brownstone, had emigrated to Canada in 1888 at age fifteen from his native Bessarabia (Russia). Raised in New York City in Lower Manhattan at his parents' residence on 81 Jane Str...

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Mattachine Society of California.

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Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943-

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Collection includes teaching files, subject files, materials documenting Snitow's involvement in various groups and organizations, feminist publications in Eastern European languages, and her writings. From the description of Ann Barr Snitow papers, 1969-2011. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 774687627 Ann Barr Snitow is a feminist activist, writer, and professor of literature and gender studies at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. ...

Arno Press.

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Weeks, Jeffrey, 1945-....

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Vance, Carol

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Young, Allen, 1941-

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The International Gay Information Center, Inc. (IGIC) was founded in New York City in 1982 for the purpose of collecting and preserving historical records and papers which document the movement for gay rights in America. Since its founding the IGIC has collected the records of organizations and the papers of individuals who have been active in the gay rights movement.It has also collected and preserved an extensive file of gay periodicals and imprints; audio-visual materials; and a large mass of...

Katz, William Loren.

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Gunnison, Foster

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Patricca, Nicholas A.

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Nicholas A Patricca is professor emeritus of theater at Loyola University Chicago and playwright in residence at Victory Gardens Theater. He received his Ph. D. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago. From the description of Nicholas A. Patricca Collection 1978- (DePaul University). WorldCat record id: 701105616 Nicholas A. Patricca has been writing for the theater since 1980, when his first play The Examen was produced at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago....

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Wirth, Scott

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Foster, Stephen William

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McReynolds, David.

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Steakley, James D.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Harding, Walter

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Foster, Jeannette H. (Jeannette Howard), 1895-1981

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Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund

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Crompton, Louis 1925-

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Lynch, Michael

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The Museum of Scotland, part of the National Museums of Scotland, was designed by the architects Benson and Forsyth. The firm had been selected as winners of an archictectural competition in 1991. The design received inspiration from Scotland's national building tradition, evoking the idea of castle, broch, tower house, and tenement. Materials used include external cladding of golden Clashach sandstone from Morayshire, and concrete, limestone, beech, and smooth plaster in the interi...

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

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After Isherwood dropped out of Cambridge University in 1925, he became the private secretary to the French violinist André Mangeot. Mangeot's son, Sylvain, the manuscript's illustrator, would become the Diplomatic Editor for the Reuters News Agency and the author of The Adventures of a Manchurian: The Story of Lobsang Thondup (Collins, 1974). From the description of People one ought to know : autograph manuscript signed : [London], January 1926. (New York Public Library). WorldCat r...

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D'Emilio, John

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Homosexual Information Center (Hollywood, Calif.)

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Raines, Joan

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