From poet Jim Dunn:
Dear friends,
Charley Shively died yesterday afternoon, October 6, suddenly, but not unexpectedly. He had been living with Alzheimer's for almost a decade and residing in a nursing home for the past six years. He would have been 80 this December.
A pivotal figure in the Gay Liberation Movement, he was the founder of Fag Rag and Good Gay Poets, a historian of American anarchism, a ground breaking Walt Whitman scholar, poet, essayist, and theorist of sexuality. His legacy to the movement and the world is enormous.
A memorial service in Cambridge will be announced shortly, and a longer obituary will be forthcoming.
Dear friends,
Charley Shively died yesterday afternoon, October 6, suddenly, but not unexpectedly. He had been living with Alzheimer's for almost a decade and residing in a nursing home for the past six years. He would have been 80 this December.
A pivotal figure in the Gay Liberation Movement, he was the founder of Fag Rag and Good Gay Poets, a historian of American anarchism, a ground breaking Walt Whitman scholar, poet, essayist, and theorist of sexuality. His legacy to the movement and the world is enormous.
A memorial service in Cambridge will be announced shortly, and a longer obituary will be forthcoming.
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