Walt Whitman (1819-1892), great American poet believed to be gay

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Text continues: "Homophobia may have stopped you from knowing about Walt Whitman. Who else does homophobia stop you from knowing?"Teal and black text on white background. The left side of the poster contains blue-tinted, halftone pattern photograph of Walt Whitman; there are pink squiggling lines inset over his clothes.Center of the poster contains Walt Whitman poem, "We Two Boys Together Clinging."

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Title Walt Whitman (1819-1892), great American poet believed to be gay

Subject Homophobia (subject), Program for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (corporate name)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Amherst (city or populated place), Massachusetts (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 30 x 56 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)

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

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

Rights The copyright status for this work is undetermined. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/UND/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-46146

Identifier box 18 (box), P01824 (call number), one-2018001-p01824~01.tif (filename), one-c4-46146 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 46146

Unique identifier UC12339449

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p01824~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.5 in × 11.7 in at 300dpi
54.6 cm × 29.7 cm at 300dpi

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Content

(1819-189 2)

Great American poet; Believed to be gay.

Ve two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Armd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking,
on the turf or sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statues mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.

(from the Calamus poems in Leaves of Grass)

HOMOPHOBIA MAY HAVE STOPPED YOU FROM
KNOWING ABOUT WALT WHITMAN.

VWHO ELSE DOES HOMOPHOBIA STOP YOU
FROM KNOWING?

For more information please contact the Program for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 545-4824.

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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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