Warren Allen Smith
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Warren Allen Smith (born October 27, 1921) is an American gay rights 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]
Smith was one of the signatories of the 1973 Humanist Manifesto II[3] as well as the Humanist Manifesto III in 2003.[4]
Award
- Leavey Award, by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge 1985 - was awarded $7,500 by architect Charles Luckman as one of fifteen recipients of the annual Leavey Awards, received for a syllabus to teach Adam Smith clubs and classes in high schools.[citation needed]
Works
- Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-Theists, (NY: Barricade Books, 2000) ISBN 978-1-56980-158-1. The work received a front-page review/interview in The New York Observer and a CNN interview by Jeanne Moos.[citation needed]
- Gossip from Across the Pond: Articles Published in the United Kingdom's Gay and Lesbian Humanist, 1996-2005, New York, N.Y.: chelCpress, 2005. ISBN 978-1-58396-916-8
- 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.[citation needed]
- Celebrities in Hell (NY: ChelCbooks, 2010). ISBN 978-1-56980-214-4 - a listing of contemporary non-revelationists including Woody Allen, Marlon Brando, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, and Frank Zappa.
- In the Heart of Showbiz, A Biographical Triography of Variety Recording Studio, Fernando Vargas, and Warren Allen Smith (NY:ChelCbooks, 2011) - an autobiography
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
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External links
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- 1921 births
- Living people
- American atheists
- American educators
- American encyclopedists
- American humanists
- American military personnel of World War II
- Columbia University alumni
- LGBT rights activists from the United States
- LGBT writers from the United States
- University of Iowa alumni
- Writers from Iowa
