ArtemisSmith's THE THIRD SEX

By Thomas Watters

Book Overview

For those who are too young to know the GrandmaMoseX of the GLBT community, Artemis Smith, also now known as ArtemisSmith Morpurgo, is a contemporary of Andy Warhol and a still-living Activist Poet, Playwright, Futurist and Digital-media Artist. Besides operating her own successful off-Broadway workshop that gave rise to many of today's vintage Film and Television celebrities, in the 1950-60's she was a prominent strategist of the Rainbow and GLBT civil rights movements, and was the first author to tell the Gay Community at pre-Stonewall 1960's ECHO Conferences to look toward the Advertising Industry to change the Gay Image, and to hurry up and "Come out of the Closet" or get left out of the civil rights movement. This author's re-issue of THE THIRD SEX also contains a continuation of her MemoirsM mementos, plus two ground-breaking Information Science papers on Sexology circulated throughout the Gay-underground in the 1960's. This volume is an indispensable addition to every Gay Studies curriculum. Alana L. Collos, THE SAVANT GARDE INSTITUTE

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1163289302
• ISBN13: 9781163289303
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"