Larry Townsend collection 1972-1999

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Larry Townsend collection 1972-1999

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1975

The collection consists of publications authored, compiled by, or edited by Larry Townsend and published by his publishing house, L. T. Publications. The publications include fiction and comics and are illustrated with drawings and photographs. The collection also includes works by others, including catalogs for products for the leather lifestyle, comics, a manual, and an autobiographical work. A few of these items include letters and inscriptions to Townsend. The publications document the gay male leather community and sadomasochistic sexual practices through fiction, nonfiction, drawings, photographs, and product catalogs.

2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

eng,

ger,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351802

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Townsend, Larry

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g74tfv (person)

Larry Townsend (pseudonym for Bernhardt) was born on October 27, 1930. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1950-1954. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1957, and pursued graduate study at the State University of California, Los Angeles. He became involved in the leather community of Los Angeles in the early 1960s and became an activist in the late 1960s, serving as the president of the “Homophile Effort for Legal Protection” in 1972. As a n...