Bradley Rose papers
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Title: Bradley Rose papers
Dates: 1973-1996
Collection Number: 1996-49
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 linear feet (8 boxes)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
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.
Funding for processing this collection was provided by the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Copyright has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society.
[Identification of item]. Bradley Rose papers. Collection Number: 1996-49. GLBT 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.
GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007627; http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH/D019497; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194
Radical Faeries
Diaries
Gay men
Photography
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768