Lester Q. Strong papers 1941-1996

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Lester Q. Strong papers 1941-1996

The papers include correspondence, writings, and audiovisual materials which reflect Lester Strong's personal life and his career as writer and documenter of gay culture. Included is a collection of his family's World War II papers

11 linear feet; 21 boxes; 1 oversized folder

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Strong, Dale G., 1918-

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Crisp, Quentin S.

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Lucie-Smith, Edward

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Literary and art critic, poet, free-lance journalist, editor, and partner in Turret Books. From the description of Papers. 1963-1975. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23949782 ...

Vining, Donald M.

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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975

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Hannah Arendt was born in Linden in 1906. At the age of three her family moved to Königsberg. Arendt was raised in a politically progressive, secular family. She studied at the University of Marburg and obtained her doctorate in philosophy writing on Love and Saint Augustine at the University of Heidelberg in 1929. Hannah Arendt encountered increasing anti-Jewish discrimination in 1930s Nazi Germany. In 1933 Arendt was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal rese...

Strong, Lester Quintan, 1946-

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Author and editor noted for essays, criticism and oral histories focusing on gay culture and the arts. Lester Q. Strong was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 3, 1946. He was educated at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the New School for Social Research in New York. Strong worked as an editor from 1969-1979 while establishing his writing career. Two of his early articles were collected and published as The Past in the Present: Two Essays on Histo...

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...

Lucie-Smith, Edward

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From the guide to the Edward Lucie-Smith papers, 1963-1975, null, (Literature and Rare Books) ...

Strong, Dale

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Howe, Delmas, 1935-

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Crisp, Quentin

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Albee, Edward, 1928-....

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Playwright. Alan Schneider b. 1917, d. 1984. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Albee and Alan Schneider : oral history, [1960-1961?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147359 American author, director and producer, Edward Albee has won numerous awards for his plays. From the description of Edward Albee scripts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652505 Edward Albee, playwright. ...

Vining, Donald, 1917-1998

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Donald Crossley Vining was born on June 20, 1917, in Benton, Pennsylvania. He was educated at West Chester State College, Pennsylvania and at the Yale University School of Drama. In the late 1940s, he published numerous one-act plays for amateurs. Vining worked in the Development Office of Teachers College, Columbia University for thirty years, retiring in 1979 to begin a private publishing company, The Pepys Press, which specialized in diaries and journals. He published the autobiographical wor...

Blumenfeld, Warren J., 1947-....

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Senior Action in a Gay Environment (Organization)

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SAGE is a coalition of professionals in social service and gerontology and concerned members of the gay and lesbian community who came together in 1977 to meet the needs of the elderly lesbians or gay men not provided for by traditional social and voluntary agencies through mobilizing the available resources of gay men and lesbians. Doug Kimmel was a co-founder and served as secretary (1979-80) and co-chair of the Board (1980-81). From the description of Senior Action in a Gay Enviro...

Fierstein, Harvey, 1954-....

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Harvey Fierstein, playwright. From the description of Spookhouse: typescript, 1981. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378823 Harvey Fierstein, award-winning playwright, actor and gay rights activist, was born on June 6, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in 1973. Aware of his sexuality as a young man, he appeared as a female impersonator in Manhattan nightclubs in his early teens. His career as an actor began in 1971 ...