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Collection Data
- Description
- The collection consists chiefly of photographs shot or collected for use in the magazine Hit Parade. Most of the photographs depict artists and performers, including female impersonators. Includes photographs taken at the Red Parrot, Interferon, the Union Club, the Ice Palace, and clubs in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Photographers include Bruce Jope, Dominique, Virginia Liberatore, Steve Aucoin, Gene Bagnato, and others.
- Names
- Toohey, Francis (Creator)
- Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 (Interviewee)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1977 - 1989 (Approximate)
- Library locations
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Shelf locator: MssCol 6174
- Topics
- Celebrities -- United States
- Female impersonators -- United States
- Hit parade
- Genres
- Drawings
- Photographs
- Interviews
- Notes
- Biographical/historical: Francis Toohey, with his partner Bruce Jope, was the founder and editor of the magazine Hit Parade. HIt Parade was published in Boston from 1978-1980 and in New York from 1980-1982. Toohey also wrote the popular "Homoside" feature of the magazine. He has also written for After Dark, Esplanade, the Boston Phoenix, Night Fall, Boston Magazine, and other gay and mainstream publications.
- Content: The collection consists chiefly of photographs shot or collected for use in the magazine Hit Parade. Most of the photographs are portraits or candid shots of celebrites, artists and performers, including female impersonators. Many of the photographs were taken at clubs and discos iincluding the Red Parrot, Interferon, and the Union Club in New York City, the Ice Palace on Fire Island, and venues in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Photographers include Bruce Jope, Dominique, Virginia Liberatore, Steve Aucoin, Gene Bagnato, and others. In addition to the photographs, the collection includes original cartoon art work by Peter Jarrette and Joel Resnicoff which appeared in Hit Parade, a few clippings of articles by or about Francis Toohey, a volume of Toohey's poetry, and an audiocassette of his interview with Allan Ginsberg.
- Physical Description
- Extent: .67 linear feet (2 boxes; 1 sound recording)
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Still image
- Sound recording
- Three dimensional object
- Identifiers
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16105032
- MSS Unit ID: 6174
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6c0db0c0-3718-0138-e77b-4b11cbe4fff1
