Charles Shively

Charles Shively

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1937 - 2017

Occupation

Activist, Journalist

Description

Journalist, poet, and a founding editor of Fag Rag. Founder of Fag Rag Books, the Good Gay Poets collective and Press, and Boston Gay Review (a journal of cultural criticism). Author of numerous books, including 'Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman’s Working Class Camerados' (1987) and 'Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers' (1989). Professor at University of Massachusetts–Boston in the American Studies Program.

See Also

• LGBTQ Magazine Editors
• Academics Specializing in the History of the LGBTQ Community
• Founders of LGBTQ Book Publishers
• Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2017

Further Reading/Research

• https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/rem/11/09/remembering-charles-shively
• http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/10/12/remembering_charley_shively_a_gay_liberation_activist_who_rejected_equality.html

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