Michael Cunningham: April and May Portrait of the Month April 21, 2014 Michael Cunningham, New York, NY, 1991 American writer Michael Cunningham was born in 1952 in Cincinnati, OH, and raised in Pasadena, CA. He studied English literature at Stanford University, graduating in 1975, and at the University of Iowa, where he received a Michener Fellowship and earned an ...

Images from Monday’s screening of “The New Black” at CUNY CLAGS March 08, 2014 This past Monday night's free screening of "The New Black" by Yoruba Richen, the 2011-2012 Robert Giard Foundation Fellow, drew a large and enthusiastic crowd to the CUNY Graduate Center. Professor andré carrington of Drexell University, a board member of CUNY’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies ...

Special screening of “The New Black” by Giard Fellow Yoruba Richen March 03, 2014 On Monday, March 3rd at 6:30 pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets), in the Elebash Recital Hall, there will be a free screening of the 2011-2012 Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship winning project The New ...

María Irene Fornés: March Portrait of the Month March 01, 2014 María Irene Fornés and Her Mother, New York, NY, 1990 Dramatist María Irene Fornés was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1930 and immigrated with her family to the United States in 1945. She started her artistic career as a painter before turning to playwriting in the early 1960s. Fornés’s first ...

Samuel Delaney: February Portrait of the Month February 03, 2014 Samuel R. Delany, New York, NY, 1987 American author, professor, and literary critic, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is best known for his science fiction novels, including Babel-17 (1966), The Einstein Intersection (1967), Nova (1968), Dhalgren (1975), and the Return to Nevèrÿon series (1979–87). Born in New York City and ...

University of Toronto Acquires 53 Portraits By Robert Giard January 31, 2014 Beth Brant 1990 © Estate of Robert Giard The University of Toronto Art Centre has recently acquired 53 portraits of LGBTQ authors by Robert Giard (1939-2002), part of Giard’s larger project, Particular Voices:  Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers, an extensive and visually rich documentation of North ...

Dolores Klaich: January Portrait of the Month January 01, 2014 Dolores Klaich, 1986 Dolores Klaich (b. 1936) is a lesbian feminist author and activist who has devoted much of her writing to documenting the social history of lesbianism, including her seminal book, Woman Plus Woman: Attitudes Toward Lesbianism. Klaich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in a leftist ...

Allen Ginsberg: December Portrait of the Month December 01, 2013 Allen Ginsberg with his own portrait of William S. Burroughs, New York, NY, 1986 Perhaps the most prominent poet of the Beat movement, as well as a photographer and important counter-cultural figure of the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, Allen Ginsberg (1926–97) was born into a Jewish family in Newark, ...