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Series III. Writings, 1968-2017, inclusive

Extent

13 Linear Feet in 21 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, 1 oversize flat box, 1 flat-file folder, and 1 shared box

Scope and Contents

This series contains Doroshow's writings including scripts, articles, reviews, notes, and proposed books. Of note in this series is a significant and rare collection of over 80 issues of the publication Michael's Thing, a weekly guide to New York City and a benficial resource of listings for clubs and businesses connected to the gay community during the 1970s and 1980s. Doroshow was a contributing writer for this publication. Michael's Thing offered celebrity interviews, articles, film reviews, party announcements, and advertisements for clubs and amenities for the gay community, dating from the 1970s to the 2000s. This subseries also contains a large number of Doroshow's legal pads, notebooks, sketch pads, and loose notes kept throughout his lifetime, filled with fragments of writing ideas, sketches, production notes, brief journal entries, quotes (his and others), and grocery and to do lists. This series also contains proposals for Doroshow's books, How to Enjoy Gay Sex and Flawless Sabrina's Cooking Guide for Single Men, neither of which were published.

Arrangement

This subseries is arranged chronologically, within groupings of files.

Flawless Sabrina's Cooking Guide for Single Men -- Book Proposal, 1968-1972, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Betty Moon -- Play Script, 1969-08-13

Box: 14, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Michael's Thing -- Publication, 1972-1987, inclusive

Box: 14, Folder: 7-12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 15, Folder: 1-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 16, Folder: 1-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17, Folder: 1-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

How to Enjoy Gay Sex -- Book Proposal, 1972

Box: 18, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes, 1972-2008, inclusive

Box: 18, Folder: 2-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19, Folder: 1-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 20, Folder: 1-9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 21, Folder: 1-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22, Folder: 1-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes, 2006, 2014, undated, inclusive

Box: 51, Folder: 11-12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes, 2008-2017, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 1-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 24, Folder: 1-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 25, Folder: 1-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 26, Folder: 1-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 27, Folder: 1-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 28, Folder: 1-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebook -- Sketch, Quotes, Ideas, 2016-2017, inclusive

Box: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- Budgets, undated, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- Cooper Union Show, undated, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- Production Notes, undated, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- "Show Biz Stories", undated, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes / Show Cue Card -- "Telephone Jeopardy" Skit, undated, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Flat-File-Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- Journal Entries, undated, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- Sketches and Notes, undated, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes -- Writing Ideas, undated, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 5-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 30, Folder: 1-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 31, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebooks, Notes, undated, inclusive

Box: 31, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 32, Folder: 1-7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 33, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Autobiographical Entries / Writings, circa 1980s, inclusive

Box: 33, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Hostage -- One Act Play Script, 1985

Box: 33, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Writings / Lyrics re: Roy Orbison, 2009

Box: 33, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Why Bother Part Ten, 2009

Box: 33, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Wise Cracks" in Papercut Annual 2013, 2013

Box: 33, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Review / Notes re: Zachary Drucker's Short Film, 2016

Box: 33, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Chapters from Untitled Book / Script, undated, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Kaum Documentary Tape Transcript, Corrected", undated, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Unknown Dialogue, Parts of Writings, Writing Samples, undated, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Writings -- Poem, Cue Cards, undated, inclusive

Box: Shared Fales 086, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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