Paul Mariah material on Ambi Sextrous and the Baptist view of homosexuality
Content Description
Sermon by Wendell Garrison titled "The Christian Attitude Toward Homosexuals" with a cover letter to Mrs. Ada Pearl Jones, Paul Mariah's mother; estate planning documents related to Ambi Sextrous, including last will and testament.
Dates
- 1977, 1979, 1993
Creator
- Mariah, Paul (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Paul Mariah is an author, poet, and along with his partner, Richard Tagett, a co-founder of Manroot Books. Manroot was an early publisher of mostly gay literature and poetry, publishing the works of writers such as Jack Spicer, James Broughton, Robert Peters, and Thom Gunn as well as 12 issues of an eponymous literary magazine.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Lee Graham was a cross-dressing San Francisco area cabaret performer who successfully started proceedings to legally change her name to Ambi Sextrous in 1988. The term “ambi-sextrous” was used as early as 1916 to describe a cross dressing performer named Julian Eltinge. According to Sextrous' obituary, “she was well known for the bizarre makeup and clothes that made her the legend she was in the gay community.” Sextrous died of AIDS in 1993.
Extent
1 folders.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sermon by Wendell Garrison titled "The Christian Attitude Toward Homosexuals" with a cover letter to Mrs. Ada Pearl Jones, Paul Mariah's mother; estate planning documents related to Ambi Sextrous, including last will and testament.
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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