MRNY Downtown Clubbing Collection
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Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle are the founders and editors of MRNY, an online style and travel magazine. Beginning in 1998 MRNY focused on documenting the nightlife tailored to LGBTQA culture and society. Both Thompson and Doyle are avid photographers and documented the nightlife culture in downtown New York City; Miami, Florida; and Montreal, Quebec, Canada between 2002 to 2014 on the MRNY Nightlife branch of MRNY. The MRNY Downtown Clubbing Collection consists of publications, ephemera, and other materials collected by Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle documenting their experiences in the New York City downtown nightlife scenes from 1978-2010. The collection includes flyers, members club cards, pins, matchbooks, and magazines, as well as playbills, posters, festival guides, and books related to gay culture in America from 1987 to 2012. Information booklets from festivals in Miami and Montreal, as well as Broadway playbills from the 1990s are particularly well-represented. Collection material before 1995 primarily reflects downtown New York City nightlife while material from the 2000s emphasizes music festivals outside of the city.
Biographical Note
Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle are the founders and editors of MRNY, an online style and travel magazine. Beginning in 1998 MRNY focused on documenting the nightlife tailored to LGBTQA culture and society. Both Thompson and Doyle are avid photographers and documented the nightlife culture in downtown New York City; Miami, Florida; and Montreal, Quebec, Canada between 2002 to 2014 on the MRNY Nightlife branch of MRNY.
Robert Doyle is the producer of the 1999 documentary We Are All Children of God.
Mark Thompson holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and has written three novels including Wolfchild and My Hawaiian Penthouse. Thompson writes articles for MRNY Style and Travel as well as Travel Weekly, HuffPost, OutTraveler, and Metrosource. He is an active member of the professional associations Society of American Travel Writers and the New York Travel Writers Association.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received.
Scope and Contents
The MRNY Downtown Clubbing Collection consists of publications, ephemera, and other materials collected by Mark Thompson and Robert Doyle documenting their experiences in the New York City downtown nightlife scenes from 1978-2010. The collection includes flyers, members club cards, pins, matchbooks, and magazines, as well as playbills, posters, festival guides, and books related to gay culture in America from 1987 to 2012. Information booklets from festivals in Miami and Montreal, as well as Broadway playbills from the 1990s are particularly well-represented. Collection material before 1995 primarily reflects downtown New York City nightlife while material from the 2000s emphasizes music festivals outside of the city.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; MRNY Downtown Clubbing Collection; MSS 523; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.
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Processing Information
At the time of acessioning, materials were rehoused in new acid-free folders and boxes. Materials were described on the collection level with a folder level inventory generated by student workers.
