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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Philip Gambone interviews
creator:
Gambone, Philip
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2011.013
Physical Description:
5 Linear Feet
3 archive boxes + 1 flat archive carton + 1 large shoebox.
Date (inclusive): 1977-2010
Abstract: Materials related to Philip Gambone's book,
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans, include interview transcripts, audio recordings of interviews, newspaper clippings, biographical information, book reviews,
photographs and writing samples. The Gambone collection also includes eight volumes of
Travels in a Gay Nation, two earlier versions of
Travels in a Gay Nation, a manuscript of
Living Out Our Lives: Catching the Heroic Spirit of the LGBTQ Americans, three volumes of autograph albums, and two project logs documenting Gambone's travels in the United States, 2007-2010.
Philip Gambone was born 21 July 1948 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He completed his B.A. at Harvard College and M.A. at the
Episcopal Divinity School. Gambone is a writer of various genres, ranging from fiction to non-fiction, anthologies, scholarly
articles and journalism. His works center on gay and lesbian culture, as well as ancient and modern Chinese history and literature.
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (2010) provides a compilation of interviews with gay and lesbian writers and artists throughout the United States.
Gambone's
The Language We Use Up Here (Dutton 1991) and
Beijin (Wisconsin 2003) were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards, and
Something Inside: Conversation with Gay Fiction Writers (University of Wisconsin Press 1999) was named one of the "Best Books of 1999" in
Pride. Gambone has also found a place for his work in
Best American Short Stories, 1989 (Houghton Mifflin), and has received artist's fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony,
and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.
Gambone worked as a writing instructor for the University of Massachusetts, Boston College and Harvard's expository writing
program. He was a faculty member for twenty-seven years at The Park School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Now, he teaches English
at Boston University Academy and Harvard's Extension writing program.
For his work as an instructor, Gambone received the Distinguished Teaching Citations from Harvard and the James Conway Excellence
in Teaching Writing Award (1991).
Sources:
Boston University Academy, Faculty Lecture Series: Phil Gambone, "Four Great Poets of the Tang Dynasty." Accessed 7 June 2011.
http://www.bu.edu/academy/2011/01/07/fls-gambone/
Harvard University Extension School, Philip Gambone, Instructor in English, Boston University Academy. Accessed 7 June 2011.
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/about/faculty/philip-gambone.jsp;jsessionid=FLNNAMPPEAII
Gambone, Philip. Accessed 2 June 2011. http://www.philipgambone.com/bio.htm
Gambone, Philip,
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010).
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Researchers wishing to publish material must obtain permission in writing from ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives as the
physical owner of the material. Note that permission to publish does not constitute copyright clearance. ONE National Gay
& Lesbian Archives can grant copyright clearance only for those materials for which we hold copyright. It is the responsibility
of the researcher to obtain copyright clearance for all other materials from the copyright holder(s).
[Box/folder #, or item name] Philip Gambone interviews, Coll2011.013, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Griselda L. Guillen on June 7, 2011. Accretion processed by Katrina Sire on March 30, 2013.
Gift of Philip Gambone per deed of gift dated 30 December 2010 and 20 July 2011.
The Philip Gambone collection includes the following materials related to his book
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans: interview transcripts, audio recordings of interviews, newspaper clippings, biographical information, book reviews, photographs
and writing samples, 1977-2000. The Gambone collection also includes eight volumes of papers related to
Travels in a Gay Nation, two earlier versions of
Travels in a Gay Nation, including a first version entitled,
Living Out Our Lives: Catching the Heroic Spirit of the LGBTQ Americans, three volumes of autograph albums, and two project logs documenting Gambone's travels in the United States from 2007-2010.
Note: not all interviewees in the collection are included in the published copy of
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans.
The following publication has been separated from collection and is located in the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives Library:
Gambone, Philip.
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans. University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.
The records are arranged in the following series:
Series 1. Interviews, 1977-2000
Series 2. Writings, 2007-2010
Series 3. Autograph Albums and Project Logs, 1997-2010
Series 4. Undeveloped prospects for
Travels in a Gay Nation, 1998-2009
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Books
Clippings
Compact discs
Gay and lesbian studies
Gays -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Interviews
Lesbian and gay experience
Lesbians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Transgender people
Gambone, Philip