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Title: Alvin Whitehurst manuscript
Dates: 2020
Collection Number: 2023-21
Creator/Collector:
Whitehurst, Alvin
Extent: .5 linear feet (1 manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Alvin (Al) Whitehurst’s manuscript, “Gay Blades, Straight Arrows,” is a memoir that, in his words, “blends history and current
events with anecdotes about my life as a gay man.” The collection includes printed copies of the manuscript along with computer
media copies. The manuscript was completed in May 2005 with updates in June 2020.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has 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.
[Identification of item]. Alvin Whitehurst manuscript . Collection Number: 2023-21. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Alvin Whitehurst, April 2023.
Scope and Content of Collection
Alvin (Al) Whitehurst’s manuscript, “Gay Blades, Straight Arrows,” is a memoir that, in his words, “blends history and current
events with anecdotes about my life as a gay man.” The collection includes printed copies of the manuscript along with computer
media copies. The manuscript was completed in May 2005 with updates in June 2020. Al Whitehurst is a gay man who lives in
Tucson, Arizona. In his words, “During the more than half-century of my life as a gay man, I have watched gay liberation flow
and ebb, seen my lover and two former partners die from AIDS, and completed an odyssey from a small city to a big city and
back to a small one. I also discovered that my father had been imprisoned for sodomy with another man in the 1940s. Now retired,
my career in communications spanned four decades in the travel and healthcare industries. I served two terms as president
of an association for gay and lesbian businesspeople. I also served as co-chair on the city’s Commission on Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Issues and held a seat on the city’s Human Rights Commission.”
LGBTQ
Gay men