Allen Young papers, 1962-2009.

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Allen Young papers, 1962-2009.

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Papers of Allen Young, a New Left journalist and prominent gay liberation writer and activist. Young wrote extensively on the social action movement and radical activities in the late 1960s and wrote and edited a handful of pioneering books about gays and lesbians in the 1970s. These include his 1971 gay manifesto "Out of the Closet," "Lavender Culture: Vision of Lesbians and Gay Men," and "The Gay Report," by Young and Karla Jay. He also wrote several papers and articles on Latin America while a student at Columbia Journalism School and as a stringer in Brazil. The bulk of the collection consists of incoming correspondence and a small amount of outgoing correspondence from 1963 to 2000. The letters illuminate his fellow activists' thoughts on social and political issues ranging from the impact of AIDS on the gay community in the 1980s and 1990s to the persecution of gays in Communist Cuba. Other topics covered include environmental activism, communal living, and the natural landscape of western Massachusetts. Also included are article drafts, manuscripts, reviews, subject files, and other materials relating to Young's books and his career as a writer. In addition there are taped interviews with writer Allen Ginsberg and California gay liberation activist Mother Boats. Photographs include a portrait of Young, circa 1960, images from the mid-1960s when Young was a Fulbright scholar and later a newspaper stringer in Brazil and Chile, and a group portrait of the International Fellows at Columbia University, circa 1964. The processed portion of this collection is described above, dates 1962-2000, and is described in the register. Additional accessions dating 1963-1970, 2002, and 2007-2009 are described below.

8.8 c.f. (22 archives boxes)7 tape recordings, and59 photographs and5 negatives in 1 folder; plusadditions of 0.5 c.f.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6923211

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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