Guter (Bob) Papers, 1999-2023

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Scope and content:: 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).
Biographical / historical:: 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.”
Acquisition information:: Gift of Robert (Bob) Guter, March 2023.

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid created by GLBT Historical Society staff.
Date Prepared:: 1999-2023
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:54 p.m.

Access and use

Restrictions:: Collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: 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.

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