Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 6.6 linear feet (13 boxes).

Summary

1. Collection contains correspondence, speeches, personal ephemera, drafts of writings, and other materials Brown collected relating to medicine or homosexuality.

Subject

1. Health services administrators
2. College teachers
3. Photographs
4. Public health > New York (State) > New York
5. Public health > Study and teaching
6. Homosexuality > United States
7. Gay liberation movement
8. Brown, Howard J., 1924-1975

Genre/Form

1. Photographs.

Call number

1. MssCol 415

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;
2. are restricted until August 1, 2033.

Source (note)

1. Clegg, John; Julie Sibley

Biography (note)

1. Howard J. Brown (1924-1975), a physician, was an innovative health planner and advocate for the gay rights movement.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Brown, Howard, 1924-1975.

Title

1. Howard J. Brown papers, 1924-1974.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Access

1. Selected items (Box 13) are restricted until August 1, 2033.

Biography

1. Howard J. Brown (1924-1975), a physician, was an innovative health planner and advocate for the gay rights movement. After working with several projects in New York City providing comprehensive health care and neighborhood medical services, he served as the City's Health Services Administrator from 1966 to 1968. He then became a professor of public health at New York University. In 1973 he became active in the gay rights movement and helped organize the National Gay Task Force. His book, Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives (published posthumously in 1976) described his life and discussed homosexuality in general.

Finding aids

1. Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. College teachers.
2. Health services administrators.

Research call number

1. MssCol 415