Scope and content The first group of 17 personal photos, one album and two loose prints, are a mix of full-length drag portraits taken at home and candid photos taken of Bobby and his friends in a gay lounge. The second group, one album containing 126 photos, is from his personal collection and features gay men from the World War II period. These are all roughly wallet-size photos, hand-colored. The photos include about an equal percentage of portrait and physique images of men ranging in age from teens to...

Abstract 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...