Finding Aid of the Philip Gambone Interviews
Coll2011.013
Griselda L. Guillen and Katrina Sire
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
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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.
Biography
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).
Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Publication Rights
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).
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] Philip Gambone interviews, Coll2011.013, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Griselda L. Guillen on June 7, 2011. Accretion processed by Katrina Sire on March 30, 2013.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Philip Gambone per deed of gift dated 30 December 2010 and 20 July 2011.
Scope and Contents
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.
Separated Materials
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.
Arrangement
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
Interviews Series 1.
1977-2000
Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet
Arrangement
All materials are alphabetically arranged according to their respective subject (name of writer/artist). Note: each individual
compact disc contains multiple interviews, and are arranged by the name first listed on the compact disc. This note also applies
to those audiocassettes that include two or more subjects.
Scope and Content
This series includes printed materials and audio recordings dated 1977-2000. Printed materials consist of interview transcripts,
newspaper clippings, biographical information, book reviews, 8 photographs and writing samples. Audio recordings of interviews
are recorded on audiocassette tapes and compact discs.
Box 1, Folder 1
Interview transcript, correspondence, and other printed materials.
1993
Physical Description: Contains 1 photograph.
Box 3, cd 19
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
2008
Box 3, cd 19
Barnhill, Christopher
circa 2007-2010
Box 1, Folder 3
Interview transcript, correspondence, and other printed materials.
1993-1994
Physical Description: Contains 2 photographs.
Bram, Christopher
1989-1998
Box 1, Folder 5
Interview transcript, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1989-1998
Box 1, Folder 6
Interview transcript, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1986-1997
Box 3, cassette 13
Cinnater, Nan and Johnson, Diane
1991
Box 3, cd 20
Clayton, Laura Beth/Racette, Patricia
2008
Box 1, Folder 7
Cooper, Bernard
1996-2000
Cunningham, Michael
1990-1993
Box 1, Folder 9
Interview transcript, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1990-1993
Box 1, Folder 10
Interview transcript, correspondence, writing sample, and other printed materials.
1993
Physical Description: Contains 3 photographs.
Box 3, cd 20
Eck, Joe/Winterrowd, Wayne
2008
Box 1, Folder 12
Interview transcript, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1992-1993
Box 1, Folder 13-14
Interview transcript, biography, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1987-1993
Box 3, cassette 13
Audiocassette
1991
Note
Audiocassette contains short clip of Gary Glickman discussing his opera "Orlando."
Box 3, cd 23
Goodridge, Hillary
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 22-23
Halberstam, Judith (Jack)
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 22
Harvie, Crawford
circa 2007-2010
Box 1, Folder 16
Interview transcript, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1995-1998
Physical Description: Contains 1 photograph.
Box 3, cd 23
Compact disc
2009
Note
CD also includes an interview with Michael Lowenthal.
Holleran, Andrew
1993-1998
Box 1, Folder 17
Interview transcript and other printed materials.
1993-1998
Box 1, Folder 18
Interview transcript, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1994
Box 3, cd 25
Horne, Lucy
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 23
Kameny, Frank
circa 2007-2010
Box 1, Folder 21
Interview transcript, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1989-1999
Box 3, cd 24
Khoury, Jamil/Gillani, Malik
2008
Box 3, cd 21
van Kraayenburg, Russell
circa 2007-2010
Lowenthal, Michael
1996-2009
Box 1, Folder 22
Interview transcript, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), writing samples, and other printed
materials.
1996-1998
Box 3, cd 23
Compact disc
2009
Note
CD also includes an interview with Scott Heim.
Box 3, cd 25
McGuire, Kathleen
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 21
Merritt, Stephin
circa 2007-2010
Box 1, Folder 25
Biography, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1991-1993
Box 3, cd 22
Compact disc
circa 2007-2010
Box 1, Folder 28
Interview transcript, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles) writing sample, and other printed materials.
1993
Box 1, Folder 29
Interview transcript, correspondence, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1990-1999
Box 3, cd 21
Raval, P.J.
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 26
Siciliano, Carl
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 24
Spade, Dean
circa 2007-2010
Box 3, cd 22
Valle, Modesto "Tico"
2008
Box 1, Folder 30
Interview transcript, newspaper/journal clippings (reviews, articles), and other printed materials.
1982-1995
Physical Description: Contains 1 photograph.
Writings Series 2.
2007-2010
Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents
This series includes manuscripts for
The Language We Use Up Here and
Beijing, and materials related to the published edition of
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans, dated from 2007-2010. Volumes I-VIII and two early versions of
Travels in a Gay Nation printed prior to the published edition, and a manuscript of
Living Out Our Lives: Catching the Heroic Spirit of LGBTQ Americans.
Box 1, Folder 31-39
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans, Volumes I-III
2007-2010
Physical Description: [9 folders]
Box 2, Folder 1-15
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans, Volumes IV-VIII
2007-2010
Physical Description: [15 folders]
Box 2, Folder 16-18
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans
2009
Physical Description: [3 folders]
Note
Version as Submitted in July 2009, then titled:
Living Out Our Lives: Catching the Spirit of LGBTQ Americans.
Box 2, Folder 19-21
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans
2009
Physical Description: [3 folders]
Note
Copy Edited Version, November 2009.
Box 2, Folder 22
Living Out Our Lives: Catching the Heroic Spirit of LGBTQ Americans
2009
Box 4, Folder 124-126
Beijing: A Novel manuscript
2002
Physical Description: [3 folders]
Box 4, Folder 127-128
The Language We Use Up Here and Other Stories manuscript
copyright 1991
Physical Description: [2 folders]
Autograph Albums and Project Logs Series 3.
1997-2010
Physical Description: 0.2 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents
Series contains volumes I-III of the LGBTQ autograph album, containing 144 photographs of artists interviewed by Philip Gambone
for
Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans; and two project logs documenting Gambone's travels throughout the United States, 2007-2010. Project logs contain total of
28 photographs.
Arrangement
Albums and logs are arranged chronologically.
Box 5, Folder 1
My LGBTQ Autograph Album, Volume I
1997-2008
Physical Description: Album (Volume I) contains 77 photographs.
Box 5, Folder 2
My LGBTQ Autograph Album, Volume II
2008-2010
Physical Description: Album (Volume II) contains 31 photographs.
Box 5, Folder 3
My LGBTQ Autograph Album, Volume III
2008-2009
Physical Description: Album (Volume III) contains 36 photographs.
Box 2, Folder 23
Project Log: Travels in a Gay Nation, Volume I
2007-2008
Physical Description: Contains 4 photographs.
Box 2, Folder 24
Project Log: Travels in a Gay Nation, Volume II
2008-2010
Physical Description: Contains 24 photographs.
Box 4, Folder 129
List of Autographs from
My LGBTQ Autograph Album, Volume I-III
1997-2009
Undeveloped prospects for
Travels in a Gay Nation
Series 4.
1998-2009
Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents
The series consists of research materials on potential subjects for
Travels in a Gay Nation. The materials include clippings, queer performance reviews, and e-mail requests for interviews. The series also contains
one interview transcript, between Gambone and David Leavitt. The folders titled, "File," includes, limited materials on a
number of potential subjects for
Travels in a Gay Nation. The folders "Chicago," "Gay Rodeo," and "Texas" consist of research and e-mail requests for interviews concerning the topic
or region.
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by name or topic.
Box 4, Folder 16
Bumbalo, Victor
2008-2009
Box 4, Folder 25
Du Bowski, Sandi
2008-2009
Box 4, Folder 28
Etheridge, Melissa
2007-2009
Box 4, Folder 46
Harris, Neil Patrick
2008
Box 4, Folder 57
King, Billy Jean
2007-2008
Box 4, Folder 68
Leavitt, David
1998-2008
Scope and Contents
Typescript of Interview
Box 4, Folder 73
Maguire, Gregory
2007-2008
Box 4, Folder 92
Navratilova, Martina
2008
Box 4, Folder 94
O'Donnabhain, Rhiannon
2007
Box 4, Folder 103
Rupaul, Charles
Circa 2008
Box 4, Folder 112
Sylvan, Sanford
2007-2008
Box 4, Folder 114
Tilson Thomas, Michelle
2007
