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Inventory of the Jack Nichols Papers, 1962-1994
| Main Entry: |
Nichols, Jack |
| Title: |
Papers, 1962-1994 |
| Size: |
.6 linear foot (2 boxes) |
| Source: |
Gift of Jack Nichols, 1993-1994 |
| Restrictions: |
Apply in Special Collections Office. Selected letters
closed until 2047; Autobiography closed until October
6, 2004. |
| Biographical Note: |
Jack Nichols is a gay activist and senior
editor of the online daily newspaper Gay
Today. He was co-editor of Gay (one of the earliest
gay newsweeklies) and is the author of numerous books and articles
including The Gay Agenda: Talking Back To The Fundamentalists,
Men's Liberation, Welcome to Fire Island, and co-author, with
his late lover Lige Clarke, of I Have More Fun With You Than
Anybody, and Roommates Can't Always Be Lovers. |
| Description: |
Collection consists of correspondence,
photocopies of manuscripts, photographs (some are photocopies),
news clippings and other printed matter. Correspondence includes
letters to Nichols and Clarke, 1965-1973, including letters from
Bertrand Russell and John Lindsay; copies are of autobiographical
notes and Nichols's serial autobiography "The TomCat Chronicles" published
in Contax as well as an annotated printout of his Autobiogaphy.
Also, photographs, ephemera, and clippings of news articles about
Nichols and Clarke and columns they wrote for Gay, Screw, TWN:
South Florida's Weekly Gay Alternative Newspaper, and other
periodicals.
Issues of the newsweekly Gay can be consulted
in the Manuscripts Division (IGIC Periodicals).
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Melanie A. Yolles
August 2004
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