John Knowles items, 1984-1985

Books, manuscripts, reprints of articles, ephemera, graphics, and proofs collected by Burton Weiss, many of them on gay themes. Included are proofs of novels by Gore Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Gavin Lambert, and others; play scripts; and film screenplays. Books and bound manuscripts (including proofs, scripts, and screenplays) are cataloged individually. Reprints of articles mainly focus on the biology of hermaphroditism, transsexualism, and sex hormones in mammals. Loose manuscripts include notes and draft pages for the revised edition of Kay Boyle's novel Gentlemen, I address you privately (first published in 1933, second edition in 1991); manuscripts of Lyle Glazier's Tragic America (1974) and Person, place, or thing; an unbound copy of Une collection particulière: 250 images de l'homosexuel dans les livres français, 1605-1969, compiled by Andrea Iezzi (privately printed, 2007); a summary of Karen Rotkin's dissertation, The socio-historical construction of female sexuality (1975); prose and poetry manuscripts by Richard George-Murray; a draft of the article "Designing pacifist films" by Paul Goodman (circa 1960); and a transcript of a session from "Revolutionary males," a seminar conducted by Burton Weiss and Charles Haynie at Tolstoy College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, in the fall of 1972.

Graphics include reproductions of drawings by Paul Cadmus. Also included in the collection are catalogs of gay and lesbian studies publications from Bolerium Books and St. Maur.