{"id":31,"date":"2007-09-20T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsresearch.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/20\/morris-kight%e2%80%94one-man%e2%80%99s-road-to-the-gay-revolution-and-beyond\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:08:21","slug":"morris-kight-one-mans-road-to-the-gay-revolution-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2007\/09\/20\/morris-kight-one-mans-road-to-the-gay-revolution-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Kight\u2014One Man\u2019s Road to the Gay Revolution and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Please join us for a talk by Mary Ann Cherry<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><\/span><\/font><strong><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt\">Morris Kight\u2014One Man\u2019s Road to the Gay Revolution and Beyond<\/span><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Friday, September 28, at 10 AM <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Room 162, <span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Thomas J. Dodd Research Center<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Mary Ann Cherry, recipient of the Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant awarded by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center to scholars conducting research in the Center\u2019s unique collections, will read from her manuscript <em><span style=\"font-style:italic\">Morris Kight &#8211; The Authorized Biography of One Man&#8217;s Road to the Gay Revolution And Beyond <\/span><\/em>on September 28, 10:00am, in Room 162 of the Dodd Center.\u00a0 Cherry\u2019s topic of study is the social activist and pacifist Morris Kight and his influence in the gay rights movement in the late1960s and early 1970s.\u00a0 Through personal letters and records of the organizations that he helped to found, available in the Foster Gunnison Papers at the Dodd Center, as well as interviews conducted with his contemporaries, Cherry aims to explore the role of individual activists and the interplay of east coast and west coast organizations at a decisive time period in the movement\u2019s evolution.\u00a0 Questions and comments are welcome.\u00a0 Refreshments will be served.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for a talk by Mary Ann Cherry Morris Kight\u2014One Man\u2019s Road to the Gay Revolution and Beyond Friday, September 28, at 10 AM Room 162, Thomas J. 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