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Title: Bob Guter papers
Dates: 1999-2023
Collection Number: 2023-29
Creator/Collector:
Guter, Bob
Extent: .75 linear feet (1 manuscript box and 1-half manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Robert (Bob) Guter is a disabled, gay writer and editor. In 1999, he founded BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices. Beginning
in 2012, Guter organized the Gay Ancestors Project. The Bob Guter papers include a full, printed-out run of the e-zine BENT:
A Journal of Cripgay Voices and programs and scripts for all Gay Ancestors Project events to date: a recital of Charles Tomlinson
Griffes’ compositions (2012); Whitmania, Celebrating Walt in Poetry and Song (2012); Lorca in his Own Words, A Photograph
for Three Voices (2012); A Posthumous Interview with James Baldwin (2015); and Five + Five, Gay Poets Dead and Alive (2015).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to materials related to BENT have been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist.
Copyright to materials related to the Gay Ancestors Project have not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All
requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical
Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of
the GLBT Historical Society 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 by the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Bob Guter papers. Collection Number: 2023-29. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Robert (Bob) Guter, March 2023.
Biography/Administrative History
Robert (Bob) Guter is a disabled, gay writer and editor. In 1999, he founded BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices, an e-zine
he edited until it ceased publication in 2007. Selections from BENT were published in the anthology Queer Crips: Disabled
Gay Men and Their Stories (co-edited with John R. Killacky, 2004), which was awarded the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/Non-fiction.
Beginning in 2012, Guter organized the Gay Ancestors Project, which hosted public performances to, in Guter’s words, “resurrect
or enhance the art of American gay icons whose importance many younger gay men I knew seemed unaware of.”
Scope and Content of Collection
The Bob Guter papers include a full, printed-out run of the e-zine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices and programs and scripts
for all Gay Ancestors Project events to date: a recital of Charles Tomlinson Griffes’ compositions (2012); Whitmania, Celebrating
Walt in Poetry and Song (2012); Lorca in his Own Words, A Photograph for Three Voices (2012); A Posthumous Interview with
James Baldwin (2015); and Five + Five, Gay Poets Dead and Alive (2015).
LGBTQ
Gay men
People with disabilities
Literature