Surviving Berkeley -- bearly : oral history transcript / Les K. Wright ; an interview conducted by William Benemann in 1999. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1999.

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Surviving Berkeley -- bearly : oral history transcript / Les K. Wright ; an interview conducted by William Benemann in 1999. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1999.

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Wright discusses his years as a graduate student in the Comparative Literature Dept. of the University of California, Berkeley (1981-1992). He discusses his health problems while living with AIDS, and his struggle to gain approval for his chosen field of study: contemporary gay literature in English, German, Russian and Dutch. He describes the early years of the "bear" movement, a culture of gay men who are attracted to men who are heavy and hairy, an interest which led him to edit two editions of The Bear Book.

Transcript: 1 v. (various pagings) : port. ; 28 cm.Phonotapes: 2 sound cassettes.

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