Charles Shively
From QueerBio.com
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
