William H. Andriette papers
Scope and content
Files relating to Andriette's experience with Deep Springs College and the Telluride House at Cornell and controversies over his views on child sexuality. Also, files relating to his work in Boston as a volunteer with GAY COMMUNITY NEWS' prisoner project, editor and publisher of GAYME, editor of NAMBLA BULLETIN, and writer for THE GUIDE, 1989-2004. His issue files include correspondence, legal briefs, and news stories about different cases related to pedophilia, pornography, and sexuality. The files cover the International Lesbian and Gay Association's (ILGA) decision in 1995 to ban the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) from membership.
Also, 19th-20th c. postcards and photographs with a variety of images of boys and young men, mostly from Germany and the United States, collected and given to Andriette.
Videos include a Boyd McDonald interview and "Hitan," a German documentary on circumcision in Islamic cultures.
Dates
- 1951 - 1990
Creator
- Andriette, William H. (Person)
Restrictions on Access
Access to Boxes 6 and 7 restricted to the permission of the donor.
Biographical / Historical
Cornellian, Class of 1987.
Extent
6.6 cubic feet.
2 videocassettes.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The records are. arranged in five series: I. Deep Springs College and Cornell University, 1982-1994; II. Correspondence and issue files; III. GAYME and NAMBLA publications; IV. Other printed items; V. Postcards and photographs.
Arrangement
The arrangement for series I and II is chronological.
General Note
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
- Boys in art.
- Cornell University -- : Students.
- Erotica
- Gay liberation movement
- Lambda Report: Monitoring the gay activist movement in American politics & culture.
- North American Man/Boy Love Association
- Nudism.
- Pedophilia.
- Photographs
- Pornography.
- Postcards.
- Prisoners -- Civil rights.
- Prisoners -- Correspondence.
- Telluride Association
- The Guide : Gay travel, entertainment, politics, & sex.
- Young men.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)