In August
1972,
Warren P. Smith published a story in the
Yale Lit — an intricate vignette about an unhappy
Chicago woman who follows her husband to
New York on a winter business trip.
Peter Schifter earned a Tony Award nomination for his work in the musical “Welcome to the Club."
Bruce D Binderow (
SY ’85) attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for one year before becoming sick.
José Vigo was born in
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico and was a doctoral candidate in
Anthropology. In
1983,
architect Gerald “Jerry” Olanoff became a founding member of
the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village.
Jim Brudner established
a prize at Yale that honors
individuals who have “made significant contributions to the understanding of
LGBT issues or furthered the tolerance of
LGBT issues.” In
1978,
Christopher Kales took a two year break from his
medical studies to perform with
the Theater Ballet of Canada. A respected
author,
Paul Monette wrote thirteen books, or “glib and silly little novels” as he called them, before he died in
1995 at the age of 49.
Dennis Allred went to work for the
U.S. State Department’s Information Agency, which took him to posts in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and
Santiago, Chile. In
1985,
Mark Dallas Butler got a job in the registrar’s office at the
Cooper-Hewitt Museum and moved from
D.C. into an apartment with friends in
Astoria, Queens. In
1967,
John Tardino auditioned and was selected to act in a mobile theater program funded by Urban Corps, a federal program to give students summer jobs in
New York City.
Terence Beirn was a founding member and executive of
the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
Jose T. Moscoso was a Puerto Rican lawyer who served on the board of directors of El Museo del Barrio and Boricua College. In
1994, the
Timothy Egan Lenahan Memorial Fund is established to support the teaching of landscape and architectural design. In
1994, top-rated talk radio host
David Brudnoy revealed publicly that he was gay and had
AIDS. In
1984,
Bret Lesilie Lansdale became the administrative director of
Waterloo Counseling Center, providing effective and affordable mental health resources geared towards gender, sexual and cultural diversity.
Julian Abbott spent 15 years
designing spaces for Theodore Hofstatter & Co., an upscale firm on
Fifth Avenue, before moving to the
East End of Long Island to start a company with his partner in business and life, W. Scott Jackson. Architect
James Terrell’s innovative department store designs won the Store of the Year Award four times.
Michael D. Palm was the captain of the
volleyball team and attended Yale on a full scholarship, graduating in
1973 with a degree in
English. After graduating magna cum laude,
Scot Kevin Haller pursued a career in
journalism, becoming senior editor of People and chief of the magazine’s
Los Angeles bureau.
John Wallace was born in
Princeton, New Jersey on July 22,
1960.
Douglass Dean Smith was a financial officer at the Birch Wathen Lenox School, and was expected to leave following his
AIDS diagnosis. In
1977,
Robert Endo was working as a
director of the Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer Gallery, handling a group of artists including Lester Johnson, Dorothea Tanning, Nikki de Saint Phalle and Joseph Glasco.
Hugh Steers was an accomplished artist from
Washington, DC who chronicled the
AIDS epidemic.
Michael Alvin Barnett received his doctorate from the Scripps Oceanographic Institute and went on to work as an
ecologist.
Robert Stewart Walden was a member of
Branford College and majored in
anthropology.
Derek Anson Jones won the
1999 Lucille Lortel Award for his direction of the Pulitzer-Prize winning play
Wit. From
Cambridge,
James Snead moved to
West Germany, where he did a
stint in finance working at the
Frankfurt branch of Chase Manhattan Bank.
Enno Poersch was one of a small group of men in Manhattan who formed the
Gay Men’s Health Crisis in the winter of
1981, providing support services for individuals affected by the virus. In
1977,
Lawrence Jacobs earned an Architecture Record House Award for his work on the Leito residence in Bedford, NY.
Jack Winkler was the sole faculty member to help organize Yale’s first
Gay Rights Week. In
1996,
David Springer represented a Wisconsin man suing his high school district for its negligence in the midst of anti-gay harassment. In
1994,
Dan Friedman published “Radical Modernism,” a lavishly illustrated text meditating on the constraints of post-modernity and graphic design. A talented
scholar,
John Boswell utilized his knowledge of 17 languages in his studies, including Ancient Greek, Catalan, Latin, Church Slavonic, Old Icelandic, classical Armenian, Syriac, Persian and Arabic.
Leonard Raver created dozens of influential works in a range of modern styles, many of which mixed the organ with electronic sounds and percussion instruments.
Frank Moore was a
painter and founding member of
Visual AIDS, one of the most important groups of
AIDS activists in the art world. In all,
Harry Kondoleon published 18 plays, two novels and two books of poetry. An accomplished singer,
Stan Ziegler was a member of the
Russian Chorus, the
Spizzwinks(?), and the
Whiffenpoofs. At Yale,
Richard Stanton Umans was a member of the
varsity swim team and the
Aurelian Honor Society. In the late 70s and early 80s,
Tim Dlugos published several collections of
poetry, establishing him as “the Frank O’Hara of his generation” according to poet Ted Berrigan. In 1989,
John Connolly became the
development director of
God’s Love We Deliver, doubling their fund-raising efforts to $1.5 million annually. In the late 1960s,
Charles Ludlam rose to prominence as one of the most prolific and flamboyant
artists in avant-garde theater. While at Yale,
Jorge Enrique Garcia-Rodriguez participated in
Gymnastics, the
Yale Political Union, the
Yale College Council, the
Saybrook Dramat, and the
Cheerleading team.
Robert Lancaster Hoskins and
Erv Raible bought and managed
the Duplex Cabaret and Piano Bar in the West Village. In the summer of
1964, immediately after receiving his BA in
Economics,
Nate Marinuzzi married Eleanor Hugo, a librarian at
Sterling Memorial Library whom he had dated as an undergraduate.
