Warren Allen Smith

Warren Allen Smith (born 27 October 1921) is a gay American activist, writer and humanities humanist. In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway, New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90).citation |title=Gossip from Across the Pond |first=Warren Allen |last=Smith |year=2005 |publisher=chelCpress |isbn=1583969160 |page=5] In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots.citation |title=Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation |first=David |last=Wilson |year=2005 |pulisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=0815630808 |page=122]

Award

* [http://www.ffvf.org/faq.asp Leavey Award] , by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge 1985 - was handed $7,500 by architect [http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101460610,00.html Charles Luckman] as one of fifteen recipients ot the annual Leavey Awards – received for a syllabus to teach Adam Smith clubs and classes in high schools

Works

*2000 [http://www.barricadebooks.com/ "Who's Who in Hell"] (NY: Barricade Books, 2000) - a handbook and international directory for humanists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, and non-theists; received a front-page review/interview in The New York Observer and a CNN interview by [http://wasm.us/moos.mov Jeanne Moos] .
*2002 [http://www.barricadebooks.com/ "Celebrities in Hell"] (NY: Barricade Books, 2002) - a listing of contemporary non-revelationists from Woody Allen and Marlon Brando to Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, and Frank Zappa
*2005 [http://www.chelCpress.com "Gossip from Across the Pond"] - ten years of Smith's British column about gay non-believers (see [http://www.pinktriangle.org.uk/glh/gossip.html "Gay & Lesbian Humanist"] )
*2005 [http://www.chelCpress.com "Cruising the Deuce"] - a serious study of the 1940s to 1980s subculture on New York City's 42nd Street; foreword by [http://www.vernbullough.com/bullough/index.html Dr. Vern L. Bullough] , fellow and former President, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex; copy was requested by the [http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ekinsey/ Kinsey Institute] ; [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/ John Waters] asked to use the book as a prop in a 2005 movie.

;Columns
* 1994-1998 "Humanist Potpourri". [http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=details "Free Inquiry"] ; "Paul Cadmus: Artist-Humanist," August 1996
* 1970s "Manhattan Scene," in St. Thomas [http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/ "'Daily News'] and twenty other West Indian newspapers

ee also

*List of atheists

References

External links

* [http://wasm.us Official Website]
* [http://www.gale-edit.com/cas/ Contemporary Authors]