Gays' writings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
James W. "Jym" Robear, Jr. Diary,
The journal of Jym Robear details his struggles to come to terms with two major issues in his life: his identity as a gay man and his mental illness. Some pages include drawings made by Robear.
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Thomas Long Papers
The Thomas Long Papers document Long's editorship of Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly. The collection includes published and unpublished manuscripts, volumes of the journals, correspdondence, and syllabi.
Samuel Ace Creative Writing Award Submission
This bound volume contains the submission "Tales of a Lost Boyhood" for the Jerome Lowell Dejur Prize in Creative Writing. It is dated March, 1986 and consists of a (titular) novella, two short stories, and three narrative poems. The volume is anonymous, but is identifiably written by the transgender poet Samuel Ace (then known as Linda Smukler), as he used material from this submission in his later published writings. The writings deal with Ace's childhood gender dysphoria.