Abstract Film scripts and pre-production material; photographs, stills with relevant negatives and film slides; publicity material, drafts and final copies of articles, newspaper and magazine clippings; personal and professional correspondence; books with inscriptions, postcards, handwritten notes, and other ephemera of Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. (May 27, 1943 - July 29, 1987), one of the pioneers of independent gay cinema in the 1970s and ‘80s, documenting his personal and professional activity, from...

Content Description Bern Hansen papers document the collecting and research activities of Bern Hansen in 20th-century gay male culture, physique photography, erotica, and related visual and commercial materials dating predominantly from the 1920s to 2000s. The papers contain amateur and professional photographs, photo-postcards, physique photography, publications, exhibition catalogues and brochures, erotica catalogues, calendars, magazines, art reproductions, narrative erotic drawings, mimeographed narrative...

Content Description The collection contains 26 original holograph and typed submissions to the Straight to Hell publication, including one from American avant-garde icon and mail artist Ray Johnson, many bearing holograph editorial markings in the hand of McDonald and the submitters. The collection also includes editorial materials towards the production of SEX, the third volume of Gay Sunshine Press’s anthology series of Straight to Hell; correspondence between McDonald and other major figures of the...

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Films collected by J. Ari Kane with primarily male homosexual erotic pornography.