John Loughery Collection Description and Restrictions

The Loughery Collection consists of materials assembled in writing The Other Side of Silence, Men's Lives and Gay Identities, A Twentieth Century History, New York, Holt, 1999. Some of the collection's highlights:

• Transcriptions of interviews with gay activists as well as "coming out stories"
• Posters
• An extensive collection of playbills for gay themed plays or plays with a gay character performed between the 1950s and 1999
• Articles from periodicals and newspapers
• Gay Comics
• Typescripts
• Photographs

The collection also contains extensive material relating to Mr. Loughery's other book: John Sloan: Painter and Rebel, New York, Holt, 1995.

Restrictions:

The following are open to on-site researchers, but may not be reproduced in any form until 2010:

• Correspondence Files
• Interview Transcripts
• Edward Weber's Sexual Memoir