Vito Russo papers 1969-1990

Brown, Rita Mae, 1944-

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Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns, but tended to feud with their leaders over the marginalising of lesbians within the feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015. Brown was born in 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unmarried teenage mother and her mother's ...

Midler, Bette

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Russo, Vito

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Vito Russo was a film critic, writer, and gay rights activist. Born in New York City in 1946, Russo attended college at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and received a Master's degree in cinema from New York University in 1971. Russo's essays, interviews, and film reviews appeared in such publications as Rolling Stone, New York, Outweek, The Village Voice, and Esquire. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Russo presented "The Celluloid Closet," a lecture and film series about the depiction of...

Duane, Tom

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ACT UP (Organization)

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The organization ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was formed in 1987 to address the AIDS crisis through direct political action. The Oral History Project was created to document the work of ACT UP through interviews with surviving members, and to shed light on the process of making social change. From the guide to the ACT UP Oral History Project videotapes, 2002-2005, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) The organization ACT ...

Waters, John, 1946-....

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Tomlin, Lily, 1939-

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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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Ray Bradbury novelist and screenwriter; Herman Melville, novelist. From the description of Moby Dick : screenplay, 1956, January 27. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652495 Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, IL, Aug. 22, 1920; started his writing career in 1943; the winner of various awards, he is known primarily for writing fantasy and science fiction stories; he has authored numerous novels, short stories, plays, films, poems, and articles, includi...

Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (New York, N.Y.)

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Charisse, Cyd

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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. ...

Katz, Jonathan, 1938-

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Jonathan Ned Katz (1938- ), author, playwright, historian, teacher, gay rights advocate, and textile designer, is a leading authority on homosexuality and gay and lesbian history. During the 1960s Katz worked in New York City as a free-lance textile designer. His writing career began in the late 1960s with the production of his plays about fugitive slaves and the publication of studies in black history. He became a founding member of the Gay Academic Union; wrote books, ...

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...

Kantrowitz, Arnie, 1940-

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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. ...