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Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher New York (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Subject Gay writers (subject), Lesbian writers (subject), New York State Council on the Arts (corporate name), Poetry (subject)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:one,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place New York (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 43 x 28 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-45127

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SUNDAY

All readings are at 5:00 o'clock
at Washington Square Church
135 West Fourth Street

@ JEWELLE GOMEZ
N.Y.C. Author of THE LIPSTICK PAPERS (poetry) and a forthcoming collection of
vampire stories. A member of the Conditions magazine editorial collective. Work
in LESBIAN FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY (Bulkin, ed., Persephone Press, 1981) and in
HOME GIRLS: A BLACK FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY (Smith, ed., Kitchen Table Women
of Color Press, N.Y., 1983).

@ LARRY MITCHELL
N.Y.C. Author of THE FAGGOTS & THEIR FRIENDS BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS and
THE TERMINAL BAR: A NOVEL (Calamus Books, N.Y., 1977 & 1982). Escaped from
Muncie, Indiana. Teaches Sociology and Women’s Studies at the City University of
New York.

@ MARILYN HACKER
N.Y.C. Author of PRESENTATION PIECE (Viking, 1974), which received the National
Book Award in poetry in 1975—and of SEPARATIONS and TAKING NOTICE (both
Knopf, 1976 & 1980). Editor of the feminist magazine 13th Moon.

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@ STEPHANIE BYRD
Boston. Work in Azalea, Sinister Wisdom, and Morena. Author of 25 YEARS OF
MALCONTENT (Good Gay Poets, Boston, 1976) and A DISTANT FOOTSTEP ON
THE PLAIN (1981). Has worked in office, hospital, state school; last employed by
the Boston & Maine Railroad.

@ RON SCHREIBER
Cambridge, Mass. Author of LIVING SPACE (Hanging Loose, Brooklyn), MOVING
TO A NEW PLACE and AGAINST THAT TIME (Alice James Books, Boston, 1974 &
1978), and FALSE CLUES (1977). Work in the anthologies ANGELS OF THE LYRE and.
ORGASMS OF LIGHT (Leyland, ed., Gay Sunshine Press, SF, 1975 & 1977). An
editor of Hanging Loose magazine.

® DOROTHY ALLISON
Brooklyn, N.Y. Member of the editorial collective of Conditions. Contributing writer
for The New York Native. Work in LESBIAN POETRY (Bulkin, Larkin, eds.) and LES-
BIAN FICTION (Bulkin, ed.) (both Persephone Press, 1981). A cross-eyed, working-
class lesbian, she believes in the power of writing to change people and condi-
tions. Author of THE WOMEN WHO HATE ME.

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@ TOMMI AVICOLLI
Philadelphia. Work in ORGASMS OF LIGHT. Author of MAGIC DOESNT LIVE HERE_.
ANYMORE (Androgyne Collective, 1976). Writer for gay publications, including Gay
News (Philadelphia) and Gay Community News (Boston).

@ ELVA PEREZ-TREVINO
Cambridge, Mass. Work in CUENTOS: STORIES BY LATINAS (Gomez, Moraga,
Romo-Carmona, eds., Kitchen Table Press, 1983). “| am a Chicana anarchist from
the frontera of Texas. It has been the stark beauty of dark skin Mexicanismo in the
landscape and environment that has allowed the magical philosophy of my Raza
to survive within me in the form of el espiritu Mexicano, luminous source of faith
and trust.”

@ MICHAEL RUMAKER
South Nyack, N.Y. Author of GRINGOS AND OTHER STORIES, THE BUTTERFLY, a
novel, the one-act play QUEERS; also A DAY AND A NIGHT AT THE BATHS and
MY FIRST SATYRNALIA (both Grey Fox Press, SF, 1979 & 1981). At work on a new
novel called PAGAN DAYS.

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@® JUDY GRAHN
San Francisco. Poems collected in THE WORK OF A COMMON WOMAN (st.
Martin’s Press, N.Y., 1978). Editor of TRUE TO LIFE ADVENTURE STORIES (Crossing
Press). Most recent poetry book is THE QUEEN OF WANDS (Crossing Press, 1982).
In many anthologies including LESBIAN POETRY, LESBIAN FICTION, A TRUE
LIKENESS: LESBIAN AND GAY WRITING TODAY (Picano, ed., Sea Horse Press, N.Y.,
1980), A GEOGRAPHY OF POETS (Field, ed., Bantam Books, 1979), and THE
PENGUIN BOOK OF HOMOSEXUAL VERSE. (Coote, ed., 1983).

@ CHARLEY SHIVELY
Cambridge, Mass. Theorist, radical activist. With Fag Rag Collective and Fag Rag
Magazine (v. esp. 12th Anniversary Issue, 1982). Work in ANGELS OF THE LYRE
and ORGASMS OF LIGHT anthologies; also in PINK TRIANGLES: RADICAL PERSPEC-
TIVES ON GAY LIBERATION (Mitchell, ed., Alyson, Boston, 1980). Author of
NUESTRA SENORA DE LOS DOLORES (Good Gay Poets, Boston, 1975). “My poems
are oral and should be eaten raw.”

Four Sunday afternoon readings by
writers—lesbians, gay men, pro-
feminists—whose work embodies
gender-liberating and postpatriarchal
values—and who otherwise have
few forums, spoken or printed,

to make their work known.

“She sliced a small opening behind his ear and drank slowly. She held him
to her breast so that anyone happening by would see them as lovers
enraptured with each other... She closed her eyes and for a moment she
was distracted by her thoughts. She took too much. His fluttering lids over
unseeing eyes startled her. She was angry at her indulgence and
carelessness.”

“The men spread disease among the faggots, one of the things they love
most to do to those they despise... The men said this state arose from an
overuse of the cock, which the faggots knew was a lie.”

“Sweet woman, Ill woman- / fully word a nomen- / clature for what we’re
doing / when we come / to; come to each other with our eyes, /
ears arms, minds, everything wide / open.”

“are you hip / to the disability / being put down / on you all / and me too /
for awhile too / like how black can you get / how white is the lie /
when will the dreamers return”

“better to drive slowly / as if every road was filled with cats / & rabbits”

“the women who hate me never use words / like hate speak instead of
nature / of the spirit not housed in the flesh / as if my body, a temple of
sin, / didn’t mirror their own.”

“yesterday i put on my faggot gown / and went mourning for the faggots
and dykes / burnt in the ovens that burped / and no one heard... /

and once when i was young / a nazi tried to rape me in an / alley /

but i bit his tongue and the / blood / dripped swastikas / all over europe”

“On the beach Acatl and Santos have stripped their wrapped skirts creating
a canopy of multi-colored shade. Like mental appartitions they flank
Milagra. They become the boundaries of an increased awareness whose
presence creates a womb out of all the loose space. . ..In another setting
through an open window, the sun is seen aging.”

“The fairies are dancing from coast to coast / all over deadmiddle America /
they’re bumping and grinding on the Kremlin walls... /
They are the green rings unseen by spaceships. . .”

“They say she is veiled / and a mystery. That is / one way of looking /
Another / is that she is where / she always has been, exactly in place, / and
it is we, / we who are mystified, / we who are veiled / and without faces.”

Selected essay titles: “Are You Ready to Die for Sexual Liberation?”
“Cosmetics As an Act of Revolution,” “Doing It in the Road As an Act of
Revolution”

“Certainly, the faggot ability to spread and flourish in the crevices of the
collapsing society around us provides a wonderful demonstration of
people’s self-help.”

The artists will be available for conversation after the readings. Admission is by suggested contribution of $2.50.

These readings are made possible by Carl Morse and Washington Square Church with support from Poets & Writers Inc., which is funded by the Literature
Program of the New York State Council on the Artc

Inherited Values

Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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