June 29, 2009, 7:00 PM
Waiting to Land: Martin Duberman and the Radical Queer Movement
Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street,
212-334-3324
A panel discussion and book launch to celebrate the publication of Martin Duberman’s Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir.
Martin Duberman is an American historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist. He has authored over 20 books including James Russell Lowell (a National Book Award finalist), Paul Robeson, Stonewall, and the memoir Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey. His play In White America won the Vernon Rice/Drama Desk Award for Best Off-Broadway Production in 1963.
In 2007 he published The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, a biography of the man who was the force behind George Balanchine's New York City Ballet.
Moderated by Laura Flanders
with
Martin Duberman
Richard Kim
Kenyon Farrow
Marcia Gallo
Book signing to follow
Sponsored by:
The New Press
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
Queers for Economic Justice
The Nation
The Indypendent
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