Join Dirty Looks and Dark Entries Records to celebrate the life of dance-music pioneer PatrickCowley (1950–1982) on what would have been his 69th birthday.
Nikki Darling, Divinity P. Fudge, Paul Gellman, Aimee Goguen, Sarah Johnson, Mr.Drummer ’79, Mz Neon, Brontez Purnell, Beau Rice, and Sheree Rose will read from MECHANICAL FANTASYBOX—THE HOMOEROTIC JOURNAL OF PATRICK COWLEY—accompanied by music from Cowley’s gay porn soundtracks and screenings of the original videos. The evening will also feature the premiere of a double album of Cowley’s unreleased recordings.
To say time flies means that it ceases to have any specificity or urgency. Westerners tend to think of this as meditative—what happens when you’ve gone exploring in the computer, or you’re deep into a really good book, or falling madly in love. It’s unusual, something other than the ordinary temporal sensibility that gets us to work, the kids to school, the assignments done, the dinneron the table. How paradoxical, then, that the most rewarding and satisfying activities are those where it seems as if time ceases to exist. — Marcia Tucker, 1996*
I am homosexual, I am a psychiatrist. I, like most of you in this room, am a member of the [AmericanPsychiatricAssociation] and am proud of that membership.However, tonight, I am insofar as it is possible, a we.— Dr. John E. Fryer, aka Dr. HenryAnonymous
So began Dr. Fryer’s 1972 speech at the APA convention in Dallas. Wearing a rubber mask and speaking through a voice-altering device, Fryer anonymously addressed a panel titled Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to the Homosexual? A Dialogue.
(Since 1952, the APA had classified homosexuality as a “sociopathic personality disorder”—a diagnosis, paradoxically, welcomed at the time by many in the gay community, who saw it as a step up from the then prevailing view of queerness as a criminal perversion.)
Dr. Fryer was convinced he needed his disguise to keep medical license, but his courageous speech struck the convention like a bolt of lightening, and the following year the APA removed homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Writer-director Ain Gordon went through Dr. Fryer’s personal papers to create 217 BOXES OF DR. HENRY ANONYMOUS, onstage this weekend at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. This conceptual theater piece focuses on three people in Dr. Fryer’s life: his secretary Katherine M. Luder (played by Laura Esterman), his father Ercel Fryer (Ken Marks), and one of his patients, Alfred A. Gross (Derek Lucci)—a fascinating character who, among other things, assisted doctors working with the Selective Service System to weed out potential gay troops leading up to World War II, during which time Gross was accused of “fraternization” with a number of his interlocutors.
Join Cedar Sigo—Suquamish poet, author of Royals and Language Arts, and editor of JoanneKyger—There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera and the forthcoming NortonAnthology of Native American Poetry—for “Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued,” part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series at Redcat.
David Reinfurt—co-founder of Dexter Sinister and The Serving Library and co-author of the monograph Muriel Cooper—will present a slideshow lecture on A *NEW* PROGRAM FORGRAPHIC DESIGN (2019), his “do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid- to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design.”
Reinfurt’s new book provides… in-depth access to a historical analysis, exquisite close-focus portraits of multi-talented creative makers past and present, alongside his own research and examples of his class assignments. This intelligent book contains new insights regarding graphic design history, thought, and practice… [and] is a reminder of Walt Whitman’s call for “a force infusion of intellect” to confront the future. — Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, director, Yale University Graduate Program in Graphic Design
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