The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture Paperback – Illustrated, June 1, 2004
by Douglass Shand-Tucci
Partner Al De Dion
Queer Places:
New York University, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012
Caneyville Cemetery
Caneyville, Grayson County, Kentucky, USA
Curtis Dewees (July 19, 1931 - November 6, 2021), who was raised and went to school in Louisville, Kentucky, was active in the Mattachine Society in NYC from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. He was president from 1962 to 1963.
In college, University of Louisville, in the late '53—early '54, a friend had a copy of ONE Magazine, and at his last year of college, in spring 1954, Curtis Dewees wrote to ONE Magazine and subscribed. He moved to New York in May, 1955, to go to grad school at NYU. He saw the Mattachine Review on a newsstand. But he continued to stay in the closed, until, one year later, he wrote to national office of ONE (he still had the letter he received from Don Lucas) and was told a New York chapter was starting. He contacted by Sam Morford and went to a January 1956 meeting, the 2nd one they held.
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