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Arnie Kantrowitz (born November 26, 1940, Newark, New Jersey) is an American gay activist, college professor emeritus, and writer. ==Biography== Arnold (Arnie) Kantrowitz was an early secretary and vice-president of the pioneering New York City group Gay Activists Alliance. He is a co-founder of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He is the author of ''Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay'', one of the first autobiographies by a gay activist. From 1999 until his 2004 retirement, Kantrowitz was chair of the English department at the College of Staten Island, where he taught for 41 years. He received a B.A. from Rutgers University (1961); an M.A. in English Literature from New York University (1963); and completed coursework toward a Ph.D. at New York University. He lives in New York City with his life partner, Lawrence D. Mass, a physician and writer. Kantrowitz has authored two books and contributed articles, essays, poems and short fiction to magazines, newspapers and anthologies. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first openly gay individuals to appear on popular radio and television shows, including those of Jack Paar, Geraldo Rivera, Bill Boggs and Sally Jesse Raphael. He has appeared in several documentary films, including ''After Stonewall'', ''Gay Sex in the Seventies'' and ''Activist: The Times of Vito Russo''. He has also been interviewed about gay liberation〔Donn Teal, The Gay Militants. New York: Stein and Day, 1971, p.252〕〔Toby Marotta, The Politics of Homosexuality. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981, p. 173.〕〔David Eisenbach, Gay Power: An American Revolution. New York: Carol & Graf Publishers, 2006, pp. 153-154, 301〕 and the AIDS epidemic.〔John-Manuel Andriote, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 7-9, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 141, 338-39, 402, 416-417, 420-21.〕 Kantrowitz's autobiography ''Under the Rainbow''〔'Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay'', William Morrow and Co., 1977; Second Edition: Pocketbooks, Inc., 1978. Third Edition: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.〕 was first published in 1977 by William Morrow, reprinted in 1978 by Pocket Books, Inc., and a third edition published in 1996 by St. Martin's Press. His second book, a biography of poet Walt Whitman, called ''Walt Whitman: Gay and Lesbian Writers'',〔''Walt Whitman: Gay and Lesbian Writers'', Chelsea House Publishers/St. Martin's Press, 2005.〕 was part of the Stonewall Inn Classics series on the lives of gay and lesbian writers published in 2005 by Chelsea House Publishers/St. Martin's Press. As an educator, first at the New York State University College at Cortland (1963-1965) and for the rest of his career at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (1965-2006), Kantrowitz was among the first to teach courses in gay literature, beginning in 1973 with "Homosexuals and Literature." In October 1985, Kantrowitz joined Gregory Kolovakis, Darrell Yates-Rist, Vito Russo, Jim Owles, Allen Barnett and Barry Adkins in helping to form The Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League, renamed The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). The organization's original purpose was to respond to the inaccurate and slanderous portrayals of gay and lesbian people that were widespread in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. In 2009, Kantrowitz was elected grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pride parade, and was awarded a testimonial citation from the New York State Assembly in recognition of his decades of gay activism. The personal papers of Kantrowitz and Mass are designated for deposit with the New York Public Library. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnie Kantrowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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