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Finding aid to the Steven F. Dansky papers, 1968-2016 Coll2015-014

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Finding aid to the Steven F. Coll2015-014 1 Dansky papers, 1968-2016 Coll2015-014 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California Title: Steven F. Dansky papers creator: Dansky, Steven Identifier/Call Number: Coll2015-014 Physical Description: 0.8 Linear Feet2 boxes. Date (inclusive): 1968-2016 Abstract: Clippings, writings, periodicals, correspondence, exhibit records, marriage records, photographs, and promotional materials of Steven F. Dansky, 1968-2016. Dansky is a writer, photographer, videographer, and activist, and was an initial member of the (GLF) in New York City. The collection also includes photographs and video interviews from Dansky's project, "Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers." Biographical / Historical For more than a half-century from the 1960s through the early 21st century, Steven F. Dansky has been a political activist, writer, and photographer. He has been referenced as such, particularly as a figure within the modern LGBT movement, continuously from the formative era to the present—from The Gay Militants (1971); Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation (1971); to Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution (2012); Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II (2013); and Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements (2013). During the early 1960s while still a teenager, he was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY), and he was an activist against the War in Vietnam with several organizations. During the late 1960s on New York City's Lower Eastside, he published two mimeographed, bilingual newsletters (Peace/La Paz and Basta), which he hawked on the street for a penny. With others, he established the I-Kon Bookstore on East 4th Street that published I-Kon, an avant-garde, art and political magazine; sold radical books, magazines, and posters; and hosted monthly poetry readings. He was a reporter for the New York Free Press, writing articles on such topics as the Black Panther Party and community control of public schools. After the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, he joined the legendary Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and was active in various groups affiliated with GLF including, Against and the Flaming Faggots. He worked in the collective that published Come Out! newspaper, and he was the publisher/editor of a journal with essays and poetry titled, Faggotry. When his articles, "Hey Man" (Gay Flames, Come Out!, and RAT) and "God, Freud, Daddy and Us Faggots" (Faggotry) appeared, he became recognized pro-feminist. wrote about his writing in The Village Voice and in her collection of essays, Admission Accomplished: The Years, 1970-75 (1998), designating him "an early gay polemicist." During the 1970s, he was a founder of the Effeminist movement that published Double-F: A Magazine of Effeminism, and he co-authored, "The Effeminist Manifesto," with John Knoebel and Kenneth Pitchford, considered "one of the most enduring documents to emerge from the modern gay liberation movement" (The Gay Rights Movement, 2003) and "unique in the history of lesbian and gay politics" (We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics, 1997). Dansky went to the University of New York, Hunter College, earning a BA in English Literature and Art History. From 1983 to 1991, he was a volunteer with Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), served as a consultant to Body Positive, and was a group therapist for AIDS Center of Queens County (ACQC). His chronicle of caregiving, "Carry me When You Go Forth," was published in the GMHC Training Manual. He returned to graduate school at Hunter College School of Social Work, getting a Master's degree in social work (MSW) and received post-graduate training at the Institute for Human Identity. From 1990 to 2001, he had a psychotherapy practice, specializing in those with HIV infection and those affected by it. He was a community based and hospital administrator overseeing HIV/AIDS programs in the underserved communities of New York—East New York; Harlem; Jamaica; and the South Bronx. He wrote two books: Now Dare Everything: Tales of HIV-Related Psychotherapy (1994) and Nobody's Children: Orphans of the HIV Epidemic (1997). From 2002-2004 in Albany, New York, he joined Choices, a psychotherapy practice in Albany, New York, that provides counseling to an exclusively transgender population; and he was a psychotherapist in pediatric oncology at the Children's Hospital, Albany Medical Center; Instructor of Pediatrics, Albany Medical College; Guest Lecturer, State University of New York, Albany. From 2009 to the present, he pursued a life-long interest in photography, and his work has been exhibited at juried exhibitions and galleries in Massachusetts, New York, and Las Vegas. His work is in the permanent collection of The Smith Center for Performing Arts, Las Vegas. A curatorial project, "Gay Liberation Front (1969-1971): A 40th Anniversary Retrospective," was shown at the LGBT Center, New York (2009). A monograph, "18b: The Aerosol Paintings of Las Vegas" was published in LensWork (2013), it and was a touring exhibition at three branches of the Clark County Library District (2013-2014). His graphic plate, "Effeminate," was published in Art & Queer Culture (2013). He started Christopher Street Press, an independent publishing company in 2010 with a list that includes The Come Out! Reader (2013); Hot August Night/1970: The Forgotten LGBT Riot (2012); On Bearing Witness: Images & Reflections of the LGBT Movement (1969-1971) (2010). From 2009 to 2015, he has been a frequent contributor to the Gay and Lesbian

Finding aid to the Steven F. Coll2015-014 2 Dansky papers, 1968-2016 Coll2015-014 Review, writing essays on everything from Oscar Wilde to Robert Mapplethorpe, from Mahatma Gandhi to Malcolm X, from the persistence of camp and beefcake to art and queer culture. His anthologized essays include "The Effeminist Moment," in Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation (2009) and "On Anger: The Months After the Stonewall Rebellion," in After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation (2013). "Broken Gender," a short story was published in Gertrude: A Journal of Voice and Vision (2007). In 2013, he started OUTSpoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers (initially co-founded with John Knoebel), a nonprofit venture to preserve the narratives of our forbearers. The project resides on a dedicated website http://www.outspoken-lgbtq.org that provides access to the entire collection of videotaped interviews from coast-to-coast from rural communities to urban epicenters, from a hospice bed to a senior retirement community, and globally via Skype to Bangkok, Buenos Aires, and Melbourne. Dansky has spoken across the country on the LGBT movement, a partial list includes, "Telling Our Stories," Diversionary Theater, San Diego (2015); "Revisiting 'The Effeminist Manifesto,'" Maryland Institute of Art (2013); "Hot August Night: The Forgotten LGBT Riot," The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, New York (2012), and the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Kingston, NY, (2012); "On Bearing Witness," Sahara Library, Las Vegas (2009); "The Gay Liberation Front Alive!," New York Public Library (2009); "Smash the Church, Smash the State," San Francisco Main Public Library (2009). In 2004 as a marriage equality activist, he and Barry Safran were married in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on the first day, in the first state, of marriage equality in the United States. Source: [Box 1, Folder 19] Steven F. Dansky Papers, Coll2015-014. Conditions Governing Access The collection is open to researchers. The digital video interviews from Dansky's Outspoken project are available for viewing in the Archives' reading room. Conditions Governing Use All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Immediate Source of Acquisition Transferred from the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Albany Libraries. Deed of gift by Steven F. Dansky, 2015. The Tom Ashe New York gay pride photographs were donated by Allen Young, 2016. Preferred Citation [Box/folder #, or item name] Steven F. Dansky Papers, Coll2015-014, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. Processing Information Collection processed by Kyle Morgan, 2015. Content Description Clippings, writings, periodicals, correspondence, exhibit records, marriage records, photographs, and promotional materials of Steven F. Dansky, 1968-2015. The materials primarily document Dansky's writings, exhibits, and publications. The collection also includes photographs and video interviews from Dansky's project, "Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers." Arrangement The collection is divided into two series: (Series 1) Personal papers and (Series 2) Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers. Both series are arranged alphabetically. Separated Materials DVDs separated to the ONE audiovisual collection "18b: Aerosol Paintings of Las Vegas," KNPR interview with Steven Dansky. 2013. Branson, M.L. interview by Steven Dansky regarding the Gay Liberation Front. February 13, 2008. "Christopher Street Press Catalog 2013," reading and video by Steven F. Dansky, 2013. "Faces – Portraits by Steven F. Dansky." Dansky curator and photographer of this Gay Liberation Front photograph exhibit. "Gay Liberation Front Alive!" at the New York Public Library, video by Steven F. Dansky, 2013. "Gay Liberation Front (1969-1971): 40th Anniversary Retrospective" at the Campbell Soudy Gallery, LGBT Community Center, New York. Video by Steven F. Dansky, 2012.

Finding aid to the Steven F. Coll2015-014 3 Dansky papers, 1968-2016 Coll2015-014 "In Public – Studies from the Street." Video by Steven F. Dansky (with video footage by Kenneth Kit Lamug), 2013. "LensWork Extended 101." Extended portfolios with audio interviews of Bret Culp, Steven Dansky, Rafael Goldchain, Robert Hecht, Michael Jackson, Brian Killigrew, Chris Rauschenberg, and George Tice. LensWork Publishing, 2012. "On Bearing Witness: Images & Reflections of the LGBT Movement (1969-1971)" lecture at Sahara West Branch, Clark County Library District, Las Vegas, Nevada on June 7, 2010. Video by Steven F. Dansky (with video footage by Kenneth Kit Lamug), 2012. Separated to the ONE periodical collection Come Out!, 1969-1972 (photocopies of original). Community, the monthly news journal of the Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council, Inc., September 2004. Faggotry, 1972. The Flaming Faggots, 1972. Gay, v.2, no.40, December 21, 1970. The Gay & Lesbian Review, 9 issues, 2009-2013. Gertrude, 2006. Notes on Gay Males in , Summer 1971. Out Week, no.1, June 26, 1989. Q Vegas, June 2010. Separated to the ONE pamphlets collection On our Own: Gay Men in Consciousness-Raising Groups, 1970. Separated to the ONE library Pitchford, Kenneth. The Contraband Poems. New York: Templar Press, 1976. Subjects and Indexing Terms Gay liberation movement Gay men's writings Gay photographers

Personal papers Series 1

Box 1, Folder 1 Articles written by, about, or with images of Dansky 1970-2010 Scope and Contents Articles written by Dansky include "The Look of Liberation," "Come Out!'s Historic 3-Year Run," "Chronicles of an Activist Photographer," "The Visible Vidal," "Mapplethorpe's Muse," "The Politics of Focus," "Love Songs of Gandhi and Malcolm X," "Of Beefcake and Beauty Queens," and "On the Persistence of Camp," The Gay & Lesbian Review (2009-2013). Other articles written by Dansky include "Alice Crimmins vs. The Brotherhood," "Strange Bedfellows: The Right and Left Against Jane Alpert," and "Motherhood, Monogamy and Love," The Soho Weekly News (1975); as well as "Hey Man," Gay Flames and Come Out! (1970); "Our Critical Direction," Community (2004); and "Broken Gender," Gertrude (2006). Includes the articles "40 years after Stonewall" interview of Dansky (2009); "Vegas resident Steven F. Dansky presents photo exhibit and lecture," Q Vegas (2010); and images of Dansky in Out Week, no.1 (1989) and Gay, v.2, no.40 (1970).

Box 1, Folder 2 Basta Enough, no.10, editor Dansky May 1969 Box 1, Folder 19 Biographical information 2015 Box 1, Folder 3-4 Correspondence 1970-2008 Scope and Contents Includes correspondence with , Blake Morgan, and Kenneth Pitchford (2004-2008). Also includes correspondence with Jane Alpert (1975-1976), (1974), and Erica Zimetbaum (1982), and an invitation to attend Christopher Street Liberation Day (1970).

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Box 1, Folder 5 Double F: A Magazine of Effeminism 1972-1976 Scope and Contents A periodical of Steven Dansky, John Knoebel, and Kenneth Pitchford.

Box 1, Folder 6 DVDs, second copies 2010-2013 Existence and Location of Originals See the ONE audiovisual collection for a listing of the orginals.

Box 1, Folder 7 "The Effeminist Moment: Thirty-Eight Years Later" 2008 Box 1, Folder 8 "The Effeminist Papers: The Making of a Male Profeminist" 2006 Box 1, Folder 18 Faggotry periodical, creator Dansky 1972 Box 1, Folder 9 Gay liberation flyer and press release 1971, 1994 Box 1, Folder 10 "In Public: Studies from the Street" exhibit records 2010 Box 1, Folder 11 Marriage records, including media clippings 2004-2006 Box 1, Folder 12 "On Anger: The Months After the Stonewall Rebellion" 2013 Box 1, Folder 13 "On Bearing Witness: Images & Reflections on the LGBT Movement" exhibit records 2010 Box 1, Folder 14 On the occasion of "From the Shadows to the Sunlight: The First Year of Gay Liberation" 2008 Box 1, Folder 15 Peace/La Paz periodical, editor Dansky 1968-1969 Box 1, Folder 16 Photographs 1970-2014 Physical Description: [12 photographic prints] Scope and Contents Includes images of Dansky, Suzanne Levine, Robin Morgan, Blake Morgan, Ned Rorem, and .

Box 1, Folder 20 Tom Ashe photographs of first New York gay pride march 1970 Physical Description: 8 photographs : b&w.Includes a CD of digitized images. Immediate Source of Acquisition Donated by Allen Young, 2016.

Box 1, Folder 17 "The Work of Steven F. Dansky" pamphlet circa 2005 Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers Series 2 Scope and Contents This series primarily includes digital video interviews produced by Dansky for project Outspoken: Oral History from LGBTQ Pioneers, begun in 2013. This series also includes photographs and release forms for the project. Conditions Governing Access The digital video interviews from Dansky's Outspoken project are available for viewing in the Archives' reading room.

Box 2, Folder 1 Interviewee release forms ca. 2013-2016 Still photographs Box 2, Folder 2 Portraits A-B ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of Trey E. Allen, Dennis Altman, Taura Anderson, Ron Auerbacher, Steve Ault, Paola Bacchetta, Bill Baird & John Kennedy, Ian Baldwin, Dennis Baum, Nick Benton, Renee L. Birder & Karen Schmidt, Mark Blumberg, Richard Bolingbroke, Richard Bradbury & Dick Weismann, Christopher Bram, Perry Brass & Hugh Young, Ellen Broidy, William Bryan.

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Box 2, Folder 3 Portraits C-D ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of Roberto Camp, Glenorchy Campbell, David Carter, Jacob Carter & Don Johnson, Brenda Catania & Deb Perkins, Sam Chong, Elizabeth Clifford, Judy Corbisiero, Kristine Cottom & Trina Porte, Steven F. Dansky & Barry Safran, Nikos Diaman.

Box 2, Folder 4 Portraits E-H ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of Murray Edelman, Tim Elliott, Angel Adrian Plancarte Entrada & Fina Plancarte Entrada, Jim Fouratt, Miriam Frank, Jack Fritscher & Mark Hemry, Marcia Gallo, Danny Garvin, Donna Gottschalk, Michela Griffo, Walter Herron, Ingrid Holmgaribay, Katie Anne Holton, Jerry Hoose, Andy Humm.

Box 2, Folder 5 Portraits J-K ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of , Karen Kerner & Woody, Ted Johnson, Miguel Juarez, Dajenya Kafele, Charles Kameyski, Jeffrey Karaban, Sue Katz, Jonathan Ned Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, John Kennedy, Don Kilhefner, John Knoebel, Giles Kotcher, Larry Kovacs, Martin Kreloff & Tim Olsen.

Box 2, Folder 6 Portraits L-O ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of Richard Landman, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Michael Lavery, Sally H. Levy, Fernando Zweifach, Barbara Love, Connor Maddocks, Elaine Magalis, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Debra Moldavan, Jason Baumann Montilla, Tracy Moore, Kyle Morgan, Thomas Negron Jr., Robert Patrick O'Connor, Tim Olsen.

Box 2, Folder 7 Portraits P-S ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of Trina Porte, Flavia Rando, Linda Rhodes, Ned Rorem, Matile Rothschild, Claire Russell, Barry Safran, Rob Schlegel, Sarah Schulman, Jason Serinus, Martha Shelley & Sylvia Allen, Ellen Shumsky, Dennis Siple, Hilary Sloin, Dan Smith, Susan Stryker.

Box 2, Folder 8 Portraits T-Y ca. 2013-2016 Scope and Contents Includes photographs of Steve Tortell, Meredith Vezina & Ellen B. Holzman, William Bond Walker & John Balkema, Rich Wandel, Dick Weismann, Liat Wexler, Fran Winant, Merle Woo, Gary Wotherspoon, Allen Young.

2nd Anniversary ca. 2013-2017 Altman, Dennis ca. 2013-2017 Anderson, Jim ca. 2013-2017 Anderson, Taura ca. 2013-2017 Athens, Ohio portraits ca. 2013-2017 Auerbacher, Ron ca. 2013-2017 Bacchetta, Paola ca. 2013-2017 Baird, Bill ca. 2013-2017 Bookish: The Art of William Bond Walker ca. 2013-2017 Bookish trailer ca. 2013-2017 Bradbury, Richard ca. 2013-2017 Bram, Christopher ca. 2013-2017 Brass, Perry ca. 2013-2017 Brass, Perry, teaser ca. 2013-2017 Bryan, William Joseph ca. 2013-2017

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Campbell, Glenorchy ca. 2013-2017 Carter, David ca. 2013-2017 Carter, Jacob ca. 2013-2017 Chong, Sam ca. 2013-2017 Clifford, Elizabeth ca. 2013-2017 Clifford, Jim ca. 2013-2017 Corbisiero, Judy ca. 2013-2017 Cottom, Kristine ca. 2013-2017 Cruse, Howard ca. 2013-2017 Dansky, Steven F. ca. 2013-2017 Del Mar and San Diego, California portraits ca. 2013-2017 Diaman, Nikos ca. 2013-2017 Edelman, Murray ca. 2013-2017 Elliot, Tim ca. 2013-2017 Elliot, Tim, teaser ca. 2013-2017 Fall Catalog ca. 2013-2017 Frank, Miriam ca. 2013-2017 Fritscher, Jack ca. 2013-2017 From Trauma to Activism ca. 2013-2017 Garner, Darlene ca. 2013-2017 Garvin, Danny ca. 2013-2017 Griffo, Michela ca. 2013-2017 Herron, Walter ca. 2013-2017 Holmgaribay, Ingrid ca. 2013-2017 Hoose, Jerry ca. 2013-2017 Hot August Night ca. 2013-2017 In Public: Studies from the Street ca. 2013-2017 Javors, Irene ca. 2013-2017 Jay, Karla ca. 2013-2017 Johnson, Ted ca. 2013-2017 Kafele, Dajenya ca. 2013-2017 Karaban, Jeffrey ca. 2013-2017 Kennedy, John ca. 2013-2017 Knoebel, John ca. 2013-2017 Knoebel, John; Memories of My Uncle Roy ca. 2013-2017 Knoebel, John; Gay Men's Chorus ca. 2013-2017 Koob, Richard ca. 2013-2017 Kreloff, Martin ca. 2013-2017 Landman, Rick ca. 2013-2017 Langer, Cassandra ca. 2013-2017 Lanigan-Schmidt, Thomas ca. 2013-2017 Latronico, Nestor ca. 2013-2017 Lavery, Michael ca. 2013-2017 Love, Barbara ca. 2013-2017 McNaught, Brian ca. 2013-2017 Mecca, Tommi Avicolli ca. 2013-2017 Miller, Carl ca. 2013-2017 Olsen, tim ca. 2013-2017 On Performing Identity ca. 2013-2017 Outspoken Film ca. 2013-2017 Outspoken Trailer ca. 2013-2017 Perez, Frankie ca. 2013-2017 Porte, Trina ca. 2013-2017 Portraits ca. 2013-2017 Rothschild, Matile ca. 2013-2017 Schlegel, Rob ca. 2013-2017 Schnapp, Marc ca. 2013-2017 Schulman, Sarah ca. 2013-2017

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Sederbaum, Ed ca. 2013-2017 Serinus, Jason Victor ca. 2013-2017 Shelley, Martha ca. 2013-2017 Shelley, Martha, teaser ca. 2013-2017 Shumsky, Ellen ca. 2013-2017 Sloin, Hillary ca. 2013-2017 Smith, Dan ca. 2013-2017 Stockman, Thor ca. 2013-2017 Stonewall Teaser ca. 2013-2017 Stryker, Susan ca. 2013-2017 Toy, Jim ca. 2013-2017 Turtell, Steve ca. 2013-2017 Vider, Stephen ca. 2013-2017 Wandel, Rich ca. 2013-2017 Weismann, Richard ca. 2013-2017 Witeck, Bob ca. 2013-2017 Young, Allen ca. 2013-2017 Young, Allen, teaser ca. 2013-2017 Young, Paulette ca. 2013-2017

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