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This series comprises personal materials and materials created and acquired by Siminoski in the course of professional activities not directly connected with his FOIA lawsuit against the FBI. Personal correspondence includes applications for teaching positions, for positions at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, and for the Jay Hayes Memorial Scholarship offered by The Lesbian/Gay Academic Union, as well as correspondence with both Frontiers and The Advocate relating to proposed writing assignments. A separate file contains Siminoski's correspondence with Alyson Publications, including a signed contract for his proposed book, Spies in the Closet: Federal Surveillance of the Gay Rights Movement, 1950-1982. Siminoski's writings include two conference presentations, and the draft of part (the section written by him) of "Perceptions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Proposed Amendments by the FOIA Administrators," which he co-wrote with J. Norman Baldwin and which was published in Government Information Quarterly, 2 (May 1985). The series also includes copies and drafts of Siminoski’s column "Gay Community/Gay Power", later "Gay Politics/Gay Community" (including correspondence with Stonewall Features, the syndicate for whom the column was written), as well as copies of his article "Spies in the Closet", published in three parts in The News in 1986, and a draft of Siminoski's cover article on Robert Rosenkrantz, "A Killing in Calabasas," published in the November 11, 1986, issue of The Advocate. Additional documents include materials on the 9th National Conference of the Gay Academic Union (1983); on the Gay Press Association and Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Press Association, for whom Siminoski was national political correspondent in 1984; and on a proposed Voter Education Project (1984), to be jointly sponsored by the Gay Press Association and by the Jim Kepner's National Gay Archives, as well as several versions of Siminoski's academic vita, and a copy of his will.

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