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Martin Duberman

MARTIN DUBERMAN

  (1930 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Martin Duberman was born on august 6th 1930 in New York City. His father was a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant who worked in the garment industry. He went to Yale and Harvard. He went on to teach history at both Yale and Princeton. He is the author of a number of academic history books including one on Charles Adams. "In White America" was his first stage play and was an international hit. It draws on documents from two hundred years of the suffering of Black Americans. He later went on to write plays that were not based on historical documents. these were collected together in the book "Male amor". they were not commercial success at the time dealing with androgyny and homosexuality. Duberman had become dissolution with Princeton, he felt that he did not fit in there and his suggestions for some reforms were rejected. He took a job at a New York City college - so that he could be nearer to the Theatre district. Whilst at Yale he had realised that he was gay - but this filled him with self loathing. Whilst trying to pass himself off as a heterosexual young man he was cruising the parks and the bath houses. He underwent psychotherapy to be cured. In 1970 he stopped the therapy and threw himself into the burgeoning gay rights scene. He was part of the National Gay Task Force and was a founder of the Gay academic Union. He wrote the definitive book on the Stonewall riots and edited "Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past"

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         Colonial Dudes, The         Dudes         Elagabalus         Electric Map, The         Groups         Guttman Ordinary Scale, The         In White America         Memory Bank, The         Metaphors         Mother Earth         Payments         Posing Naked         Recorder, The         Soon         Sunken Land         Visions Of Kerouac

Colonial Dudes, The

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New York     1969

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in "Male armour", Dutton, New York, 1975   -

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Dudes

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New York     1972

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Elagabalus

Elagabalus
Eric is a "self indulgent and affluent androgynst" whose self loathing leads him to stab himself fatally in the groin

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New York     1973

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in "Male armour", Dutton, New York, 1975   -

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Electric Map, The

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In turning to his brother for help in a personal crisis man establishes details of their respective pasts.

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New York     1970

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Dial Press, New York, 1970   -

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MeloDrama

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Groups

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Guttman Ordinary Scale, The

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In White America

In White America
examination of the role of black Americans in the countries history

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New York     1963

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Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1964   -

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Documentary Play Documentary

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Memory Bank, The

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New York     1970

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Dial Press, New York, 1970   -

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Metaphors

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Paul is applying to Yale but as he is a borderline case the Interviewer must find out if he has any talents that could be useful. Paul tells him that he can find the key to unlock people's minds. He tells of the man who taught him the technique tried it with a married doctor and they ended up having an affair. the Interviewer thinks this is terrible but Paul says it was what the doctor wanted. Paul then tells him of how he was seduced at the age of nine by a priest. again the Interviewer is aghast but Paul tells him that he is looking at things incorrectly again as he had enjoyed the experience.

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1st Produced:
Cafe Au Go Go, New York     1968

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Random House, New York, 1968   -

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One act. - - Gay, one act

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Mother Earth

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the story of Emma Goldman

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Payments

Payments
a self styled straight masculine man works as a gay hustler

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New York     1971

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in "Male armour", Dutton, New York, 1975   -

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Posing Naked

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the story of Newton arvin a famous literary critic and closeted gay man. He was investigated by the police when they discovered that he was receiving soft gay porn photographs through the mail. He was forced into naming other gay colleagues.

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Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, Nc     1998

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Contained in: "Radical acts: Collected Political Plays" published by New Press, 2008   -

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Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Recorder, The

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Historian confuses his own life and experiences with that of the man he is researching.

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New York     1970

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Dial Press, New York, 1970   -

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Soon

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music Joseph Martinez Kookoolis And Fagan, story Kookoolis, Fagan And Greenwald

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Ritz, New York     1971

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Rock Opera Opera

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Sunken Land

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Stage Left Theatre, Chicago     19 Mar 1993

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Visions Of Kerouac

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1st Produced:
New York     1976

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Little Brown, Boston, 1977   -

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