Bradley Rose papers
1973-1996
Title: Bradley Rose papers
Dates: 1973-1996
Collection Number: 1996-49
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 linear feet (8 boxes)
Repository:
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Abstract: The Bradley Rose papers contain materials related to the life and work of the bookseller, writer and community activist. They
include Rose’s journals from 1973 to 1996 and his slide show on the life of prominent German art historian J.J. Winckelmann.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society.
Bradley Rose papers. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Gift of Will Roscoe on November 17, 1996.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Bradley Rose papers contain materials related to the life and work of the bookseller, writer and community activist.
Rose, who was born in 1957, died of AIDS in 1996. He co-founded “VORTEX: A Journal of New Vision” with his partner of 16 years,
scholar and activist, Will Roscoe. Rose was also founding director of Nomenus, a radical fairy organization. The bulk of the
collection contains Rose’s journals from 1973 to 1996. It also includes his slide show on the life of prominent German art
historian J.J. Winckelmann, as well as a videotape, “Winckelmann in Italy”; notebooks with his research and writings on a
variety of subjects, including astrology and music, and his unfinished historical novel based on Winckelmann’s life; and a
complete run of the chapbook series he published, “A Radical Fairy’s Seedbed,” which included essays by Harry Hay and John
Burnside. The colored tabs in Rose’s journals mark notations from Roscoe. “VORTEX” is available in the Periodical Collection.
Radical Faeries (New Age movement)
Gay liberation movement --United States.
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768