Warren Allen Smith
Warren Allen Smith (born 27 October 1921) is a gay American activist, writer and humanities humanist. In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway, New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90).[1] In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots.[2]
Award
- Leavey Award, by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge 1985 - was handed $7,500 by architect Charles Luckman as one of fifteen recipients ot the annual Leavey Awards – received for a syllabus to teach Adam Smith clubs and classes in high schools
Works
- 2000 Who's Who in Hell (NY: Barricade Books, 2000) - a handbook and international directory for humanists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, and non-theists; received a front-page review/interview in The New York Observer and a CNN interview by Jeanne Moos.
- 2002 Celebrities in Hell (NY: Barricade Books, 2002) - a listing of contemporary non-revelationists from Woody Allen and Marlon Brando to Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, and Frank Zappa
- 2005 Gossip from Across the Pond - ten years of Smith's British column about gay non-believers (see Gay & Lesbian Humanist)
- 2005 Cruising the Deuce - a serious study of the 1940s to 1980s subculture on New York City's 42nd Street; foreword by Dr. Vern L. Bullough, fellow and former President, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex; copy was requested by the Kinsey Institute; John Waters asked to use the book as a prop in a 2005 movie.
- Columns
- 1994-1998 "Humanist Potpourri". Free Inquiry"; "Paul Cadmus: Artist-Humanist," August 1996
- 1970s "Manhattan Scene," in St. Thomas Daily News' and twenty other West Indian newspapers
See also
References
- ^ Smith, Warren Allen (2005), Gossip from Across the Pond, chelCpress, p. 5, ISBN 1583969160
- ^ Wilson, David (2005), Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation, p. 122, ISBN 0815630808
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