Arthur Bell papers 1970-1978

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Arthur Bell papers 1970-1978

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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Bell, Arthur, 1933-1984.

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Arthur Bell was a journalist, writer for the VILLAGE VOICE, and gay rights activist. From the description of Arthur Bell papers, 1970-1978. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 80076028 Arthur Bell was a journalist, writer for the VILLAGE VOICE, and gay rights activist. Arthur Bell (1939-84) writer, journalist and gay rights activist, was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Samuel Bell, was a manufacturer of children's clothing. His mother, Claire Bodan Bell, w...

Gay Activists Alliance

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Writer, gay rights activist, and professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Officer of the Gay Activists Alliance (1970), Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (1976) and cofounder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (1985), Kantrowitz is the author of the memoir Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay (1977) and many essays in the gay press. From the guide to the Arnie Kantrowitz papers, 1958-1995, (The New York Public Library. ...

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 AndreĢ 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...