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Title: Gay Sunshine collection
Dates: 1965-1985
Collection Number: 1996-25
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 2 folders
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection contains letters written to Winston Leyland and Gay Sunshine Press and other related material.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Gay Sunshine collection. Collection Number: 1996-25. GLBT Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains letters written to Winston Leyland and Gay Sunshine Press. Notable correspondents include composer
Ned Rorem; Daniel Curzon (aka Daniel R. Brown, author of "Something You Can Do in the Dark"); Alain-Emmanuel Dreuilhe (author
of "La Societe Invertie" and "Corps a Corps"); Jean-Luc Pinard-Lectry (editor of "Masques" and author of "La Maman et le Pederaste");
and poet Edward Field. There are also a few photographs of Rorem and an interview with Curzon and the first two-thirds of
an article possibly titled "The Lineage" about Gavin Arthur and his relationship with Edward Carpenter, and their connection
to Walt Whitman. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091
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