Arnie Kantrowitz Papers, 1958-1995.

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Arnie Kantrowitz Papers, 1958-1995.

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.

14 linear ft. (36 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6769838

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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