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Edward Sebesta, Collector, Publications on Gay Life A&M 4574

Edward Sebesta, Collector, Publications on Gay Life A&M 4574


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West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Morgantown, WV 26506-6069
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URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu

Devon Lewars

Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 4574
Title
Edward Sebesta, Collector, Publications on Gay Life circa 1970-1988
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/226665
Quantity
1.08 Linear Feet, 1 flat storage box, 3 in.; 2 document cases, 2.5 in. each; 1 document case, 5 in.
Creator
Sebesta, Edward
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.

Conditions Governing Access

No special access restriction applies.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Edward Sebesta, Collector, Publications on Gay Life, A&M 4574, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Edward Sebesta, 2020 (three accessions).

Scope and Contents

This collection and its addenda are made up of publications including newspapers, booklets, magazines and comics. Publications include Gay Sunshine , Gay Comix , Christopher Street and other materials published throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Material from the original donation can be found in boxes 1 and 2. Addendum 2020-10-09 can be found in boxes 2 and 3. Addendum 2020-03-04 can be found in boxes 1 and 4. Box 3 also includes a note pertaining to the donor's interpretation of the material in addendum 2020-10-09.

Certain materials in this collection depict full nudity and include explicit sexual references.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Gay Comix
  • Gay Sunshine Press
  • Gay culture
  • LGBT activism
  • Sebesta, Edward

Bibliography

Edward Sebesta is a gay historian, activist, and author. Sebesta is a local of Dallas, Texas and as of 2022 has been actively fighting for gay rights in Texas. Sebesta's work includes Disable, Defeat and Demolish Homophobic Christianity , Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction , and Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" about the "Lost Cause" .

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Sebesta, Edward
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Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Gay Comix No. 1, published by Kitchen Sink Comic, Inc., Princeton, WI.
1980
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Gay Comix No. 2, published by Kitchen Sink Comic, Inc., Princeton, WI.
1981
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Gay Comix No. 3, published by Kitchen Sink Comic, Inc., Princeton, WI.
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Gay Comix No. 4, published by Kitchen Sink Comic, Inc., Princeton, WI.
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Gay Comix No. 6, published by Kitchen Sink Comic, Inc., Princeton, WI.
1985
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1
Gay Comix No. 7, published by Kitchen Sink Comic, Inc., Princeton, WI.
1986
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Watch Out Comix , "Gay Satire from San Francisco," by Carl Vaughn Frick, published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.
1986
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2
Gay Heart Throbs No. 2, published by Larry Fuller Presents, San Francisco.
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"Changing views of homosexuality," by Elizabeth Ogg, Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 563, published by Public Affairs Committee
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"Radical America: Gay Rights &The Left," July-August 1977, Vol. 2 No. 4 issue of "Radical America." Alternative Education Project, Inc., 60 Union Square, Massachusetts, 02143.
1977 August
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"Growing Up Gay: A Youth Liberation Pamphlet," Youth Liberation Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"Homophobia and Education: How to Deal With Name Calling," special issue of the Bulletin of Interracial Books for Children , Vol. 14, No. 3&4
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3
"Gays on Campus," J. Lee Lehman, editor, of the National Gay Student Center for the United States National Students Association, Washington, D.C.
1975
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
"Come Out: selections from the radical gay liberation newspaper," anthology of articles from COME OUT! , published by Gay Liberation Front. 62 pages.
1970
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
"Who's Behind the Gay Rights Movement," identified as "A Gay Civil Rights Support Packet," by the National Gay Task Force, New York, New York, 29 pages.
1980
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
"Censored, Ignored, Over-Looked, Too Expensive: How to Get Gay Materials into Libraries," by Stuart R. Miller, published by the Gay Task Force, American Library Association, Coordinator, Barbara Gittings, P.O. Box 2383, Philadelphia, PA.
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4
"The Homosexual Imagination," Special Issue of College English, Vol. 36 No. 3, edited by Louis Crew and Rictor Norton.
1974 November
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Christopher Street , The Life and Death of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
1979 March
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
GPU News by Liberation Publications, Inc, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Vol. 8, No. 9.
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
Alternate , Special Gay Artist Issue, vol. 2, no. 12. Published by John H. Embry.
1980 April
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5
"Gay Yellow Pages: The National Edition," USA & Canada for Gay Women and Men, No. 8, Fall/Winter 1976/77.
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
"A Gay Bibliography" published by the Task Force on Gay Liberation Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association, Fifth Edition.
1975
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6
"Homosexuality in Ancient Greek and Roman Civilization: A critical bibliography with supplement," Canadian Gay Archives, Pub. No. 6, Toronto, compiled by Beert C. Verstraete.
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Gay Books Bulletin , Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring 1979. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Gay Books Bulletin , Vol. 1 No. 2, Summer 1979. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Gay Books Bulletin , Vol 1. No. 3, Winter 1979. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Gay Books Bulletin , Fall 1980 No. 4. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1980
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Gay Books Bulletin , Spring 1981 No. 5. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1981
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7
Gay Books Bulletin , Fall 1981 No. 6. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1981
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Gay Books Bulletin , Spring 1982, No. 7. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Gay Books Bulletin , Fall/Winter 1982, No. 8. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1982
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
Gay Books Bulletin , Spring/Summer 1983, No. 9. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
The Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin , Winter/Spring 1984, No. 10. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1984
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
The Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin , Fall/Winter 1984, No. 11. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1984
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8
The Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin , Spring/Summer 1985, No. 12. Published by the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union.
1985
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
With Downcast Gays: Aspects of homosexual self-oppression by Andrew Hodges and David Hutter. Pink Triangle Press edition. 1977
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
With Downcast Gays: Aspects of homosexual self-oppression by Andrew Hodges and David Hutter. Pomegranate Press edition, October 1978.
1978 October
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
"20 Questions about Homosexuality: A political primer," Gay Activists Alliance, New York.
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1
"Unauthorized Sexual Behavior during the Enlightenment," edited by Robert P. Maccubbin. Oxford University Press
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Gay Academic Union Journal GAI SABER Series, Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring 1977
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Gay Academic Union Journal GAI SABER Series, Vol. 1 No. 2 Summer 1977.
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2
Gay Academic Union Journal GAI SABER Series, Vol. 1 No. 3-4, Summer 1978
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
GAI SABER Monograph No.2 "Reflections on the American Homosexual Rights Movement," by Jim Levin. "Afterword" by Wayne Dynes., published by the Gay Scholarship Committee, Gay Academic Union, 1983, New York, New York. Pages 67.
1983
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
"Dangerous Trends in Feminism," by John Lauritsen, Nov. 27, 1976. New York City. Gay Academic Union Conference.
1976-11
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
Gay Academic Union Newsletter , Vol. 1 No. 1 Spring 1978. "GAU HQ Moves to Los Angeles."
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3
GAI SABER Monograph No. 1, "Homosexuality, Intolerance, and Christianity: A Critical Examination of John Boswell's Work," The Scholarship Committee, Gay Academic Union, New York City.
1981
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
Collected clippings from Christopher Street , a magazine pertaining to sexuality and gay life
1979-1981
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2
Collected clippings from magazines and a draft manuscript, pertaining to sexuality and gay life
1971-1976
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3
Collected loose leaf copies of Mother Jones , article titled "The Military and Lesbians during the McCarthy Years," and other portions of publications pertaining to sexuality and gay life
1983, undated
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4
Collected clippings of newspapers and magazines pertaining to sexuality and gay life
1977-1983
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Fag Rag, Gay Sunshine , "Fifth Anniversary of Stonewall," Summer 1974
1974
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Gay Sunshine No. 10
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Gay Sunshine No. 11
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Gay Sunshine No. 12. April 1972
1972
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Gay Sunshine No. 14
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2
Gay Sunshine No. 15
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Gay Sunshine No. 17, March-April 1973
1973
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Gay Sunshine No. 18, June-July 1973
1973
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Gay Sunshine No. 19, September-October 1973
1973
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Gay Sunshine No. 20, January-February 1974
1974
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3
Gay Sunshine No. 21, Spring 1974
1974
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
Gay Sunshine No. 23
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
Gay Sunshine No. 24, Spring 1975
1975
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4
Gay Sunshine No. 25, Summer 1975
1975
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Gay Sunshine No. 26/27, Winter 1975-1976
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Gay Sunshine No. 28, Spring 1976
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5
Gay Sunshine No. 29/30 Summer/Fall 1976
1976
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
Gay Sunshine No. 31, Winter 1977
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
Gay Sunshine No. 32, Spring 1977
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6
Gay Sunshine No. 33/34, Summer/Fall 1977
1977
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
Gay Sunshine No. 35, Winter 1978
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
Gay Sunshine No. 36/37, Spring/Summer 1978
1978
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7
Gay Sunshine No. 38/39, Winter 1979
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
Gay Sunshine No. 40/41, Summer/Fall 1979
1979
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8
Gay Sunshine No. 42/43, 1980
1980