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Martin B. Duberman (1930 - )
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Out : The Politics of Exclusion / Essays / 1964-1999 by
Martin Duberman
Radical scholar and activist Martin Duberman
assembles a representative cross section of his writings in Left
Out, an anthology that includes essays on racial politics and
gay and lesbian history, as well as critiques of U.S. foreign
policy, campus radicalism, and several other topics. Whether he's
discussing his experiences working on his acclaimed biography of
Paul Robeson or the early years of the National Gay Task Force,
Duberman writes with visible passion--giving free rein to his
humor and keeping his occasional fury in check. Among the
highlights in Left Out are "The 'Father' of the
Homophile Movement," a long biographical essay about Donald
Webster Cory, also known as Edward Sagarin (who wrote a pioneering
account of homosexual life in the 1950s but later became a staunch
critic of the movement for acceptance of gays), and "Kinsey's
Urethra," a caustic pan of a heavily moralistic biography of
sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
 Hidden
from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by
Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey,
Martin Duberman
Without peer, Hidden from History gathers
together the works of the most exciting scholars in the dynamic
field of homosexual studies, making this a ground-breaking and
provocative work that reveals the history of gays and lesbians in
different cultures and eras. Photos.
"This book is chockful of great monographs
on gay and lesbian history. After a world-shaking introduction by
all three editors, the book offers monographs from many periods in
history. And not only is Western history profiled--there is also
Asian gay history, and other non-European monographs as well.
Everything is scholarly, and well-documented, and some of the
information that you read in here is incredibly surprising! I am
glad that a book like this finally exists, and, as a historian
myself, know from this book that history is changing for the
better by including the gay population and other minorities."
-- Anonymous Review
Midlife
Queer; Autobiography of a Decade, 1971-1991 by
Martin Duberman
A seminal portrait of the crucial decade that
launched the gay rights movement by one of its key figures,
Midlife Queer gives reader an idiosyncratic and very personal
account of 1970s America and takes a fresh look at such subjects
as radical politics, fledgling gay studies programs, alternative
psychiatric therapies, and the sexual/social scene found in the
time of the pre-AIDS generation.
About the Author
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History at
Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of
New York. He is the author of seventeen books including the widely
acclaimed Cures; Stonewall; and Paul Robeson.
Duberman is the founder and the first director (1986-1996) of the
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School,
the country's first such research program.
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New York Public Library
Personal and professional correspondence,
1930s-1979, documenting his academic career and theatrical
activities, organizational files from Redress, the Gay Academic
Union, and the National Gay Task Force, syllabi and lecture notes
for courses taught at Yale and Princeton, manuscripts, typescripts
and published copies of his books, plays, and essays, as well as
press clippings and personal, family and theatrical memorabilia,
audiotaped interviews, personal and family photographs and films.
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By Martin Duberman, in The Nation, 28
December 1998
Excerpt:
 It
was Paul Robeson Jr. who invited me, back in 1981, to be his
father's biographer. He had offered me exclusive access for seven
years to the vast family archives long closed to scholars, and had
stressed at our very first meeting that he wasn't looking for a
"Saint Robeson" but rather a tell-it-like-it-was account
that would make his father an accessible human being rather than a
pedestalized god.
Impressed, flattered and eager as I was to
accept Paul Jr.'s offer, it also puzzled me. "You can see
that I'm white," I said to him during that first meeting,
"but do you also know that I'm gay, and that I've been
actively involved in the gay political movement for years?"
He casually replied that he did, that he had had me
"thoroughly checked out." He had become convinced that I
was the right biographer for his father because (as I recorded his
words in my diary) of my "nuanced prose," my
"complex understanding of personality," my left-wing
politics and my experience in the theater...
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The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
is the first and only university-based research center in the
United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and
political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgendered individuals. By sponsoring public programs and
conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and
functioning as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS
serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that
fosters social change. CLAGS makes its home at the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
10016.
Founder:
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of
History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York,
and the founder and Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for
Lesbian and Gay Studies. One of the country's foremost historians,
he is the author of 17 books and numerous articles and essays. He
won the Bancroft Prize for Charles Francis Adams (1960);
two Lambda awards for Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay
and Lesbian Past, an anthology he co-edited; and a special
award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters for his
overall "contributions to literature." His play, In
White America, won the Vernon Rice/Drama Desk Award in 1964.
His other works include James Russell Lowell (1966), Black
Mountain: An Exploration in Community (1972), Paul Robeson
(1989), Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey (1991), Stonewall
(1994), Midlife Queer (1996), A Queer World (1997),
and Queer Representations (1997)...
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