Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Bradley Rose papers contain materials related to the life and work of the bookseller, writer and community activist. Rose, who was born in 1957, died of AIDS in 1996. He co-founded “VORTEX: A Journal of New Vision” with his partner of 16 years, scholar and activist, Will Roscoe. Rose was also founding director of Nomenus, a radical fairy organization. The bulk of the collection contains Rose’s journals from 1973 to 1996. It also includes his slide show on the life of prominent German art historian J.J. Winckelmann, as well as a videotape, “Winckelmann in Italy”; notebooks with his research and writings on a variety of subjects, including astrology and music, and his unfinished historical novel based on Winckelmann’s life; and a complete run of the chapbook series he published, “A Radical Fairy’s Seedbed,” which included essays by Harry Hay and John Burnside. The colored tabs in Rose’s journals mark notations from Roscoe. “VORTEX” is available in the Periodical Collection. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007627; http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH/D019497; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Will Roscoe on November 17, 1996.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1973-1996
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society.
- Preferred citation:
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Bradley Rose papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455