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 *[https://archive.org/details/CharlesShivley/mode/2up Charles Shively, FBI Memorandum] (Archive.org).
 *Bronski, [https://lambdaliterary.org/2017/11/remembering-charles-shively/ In Remembrance: Charles Shively, a Pivotal Figure in the Gay Liberation Movement] (''Lambda Literary'', November 9, 2017).
 ==See also==

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	[[File:Charley shively calamus lovers cover dedication.jpg\|thumb\|A copy of Shively's book ''Calamus Lovers'', which Shively dedicated to fellow ''Fag Rag'' writer Tom Reeves who became a major spokesperson for NAMBLA. The inscription reads: "''For Tom Reeves 1/2 comes directly from your inspiration the other 1/2 indirectly many kisses Charley Shively 12/16/86''".]]{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes ~~involves~~ large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).		[[File:Charley shively calamus lovers cover dedication.jpg\|thumb\|A copy of Shively's book ''Calamus Lovers'', which Shively dedicated to fellow ''Fag Rag'' writer Tom Reeves who became a major spokesperson for NAMBLA. The inscription reads: "''For Tom Reeves 1/2 comes directly from your inspiration the other 1/2 indirectly many kisses Charley Shively 12/16/86''".]]{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involved large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

	To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.		To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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	[[File:Charley shively calamus lovers cover dedication.jpg\|thumb\|A copy of Shively's book ''Calamus Lovers'', which Shively dedicated to fellow ''Fag Rag'' writer Tom Reeves who became NAMBLA~~'s main co-founder~~. The inscription reads: "''For Tom Reeves 1/2 comes directly from your inspiration the other 1/2 indirectly many kisses Charley Shively 12/16/86''".]]{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).		[[File:Charley shively calamus lovers cover dedication.jpg\|thumb\|A copy of Shively's book ''Calamus Lovers'', which Shively dedicated to fellow ''Fag Rag'' writer Tom Reeves who became a major spokesperson for NAMBLA. The inscription reads: "''For Tom Reeves 1/2 comes directly from your inspiration the other 1/2 indirectly many kisses Charley Shively 12/16/86''".]]{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

	To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.		To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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	*Self-government and self-determination of all people<ref>''Ibid''.</ref>		*Self-government and self-determination of all people<ref>''Ibid''.</ref>

	During the 1970s and 80s, Shively was involved in numerous LGBT organizations, was a founding member of ''Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders'' (GLAD), and, along with ''Fag Rag'', wrote frequently for Gay Sunshine, and the [[List_of_MAP-related_magazines\|MAP sympathetic]] ''Gay Community News'' and ''The Guide''.		During the 1970s and 80s, Shively was involved in numerous LGBT organizations, was a founding member of ''Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders'' (GLAD), and, along with ''Fag Rag'', wrote frequently for ''Gay Sunshine'', and the [[List_of_MAP-related_magazines\|MAP sympathetic]] ''Gay Community News'' and ''The Guide''.

	==External Links==		==External Links==

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).		[[File:Charley shively calamus lovers cover dedication.jpg\|thumb\|A copy of Shively's book ''Calamus Lovers'', which Shively dedicated to fellow ''Fag Rag'' writer Tom Reeves who became NAMBLA's main co-founder. The inscription reads: "''For Tom Reeves 1/2 comes directly from your inspiration the other 1/2 indirectly many kisses Charley Shively 12/16/86''".]]{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

	To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.		To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike, agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).		{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

	To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.		To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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	During the 1970s and 80s, Shively was involved in numerous LGBT organizations, was a founding member of ''Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders'' (GLAD), and, along with ''Fag Rag'', wrote frequently for Gay Sunshine, and the [[List_of_MAP-related_magazines\|MAP sympathetic]] ''Gay Community News'' and ''The Guide''.		During the 1970s and 80s, Shively was involved in numerous LGBT organizations, was a founding member of ''Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders'' (GLAD), and, along with ''Fag Rag'', wrote frequently for Gay Sunshine, and the [[List_of_MAP-related_magazines\|MAP sympathetic]] ''Gay Community News'' and ''The Guide''.

			==External Links==

			*Michael Bronski, [https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/michael-bronski-last-gay-liberationist/ The Last Gay Liberationist] (''Boston Review'', December 20, 2017).
			*Jim Downs, [https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/10/remembering-charley-shively-a-gay-liberation-activist-who-rejected-equality.html For Charley Shively, Gay Liberation Was About Sex and Rebellion, Not Equality] (''Slate'', Oct 12, 2017).
			*[https://archive.org/details/CharlesShivley/mode/2up Charles Shively, FBI Memorandum] (Archive.org).
			*Bronski, [https://lambdaliterary.org/2017/11/remembering-charles-shively/ In Remembrance: Charles Shively, a Pivotal Figure in the Gay Liberation Movement] (''Lambda Literary'', November 9, 2017).

	==See also==		==See also==

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	'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike, agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).		{{Template:Ac}}'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike, agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

	To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.		To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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	'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on gay / [[pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike, agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).		'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on [[Pederasty\|gay / pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike, agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

	To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.		To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

	In 1971, he helped form the ''Fag Rag Collective'', which published the first national post-Stonewall gay political journal, ''Fag Rag'', from 1971 to 1987. In ''Fag Rag'' Shively published a series of twelve essays, beginning with "Cocksucking as an Act of Revolution", and continuing with such titles as "Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution," "Bestiality as an Act of Revolution," and "Incest as an Act of Revolution". [[Michael Bronkski]] describes these writings as "an idiosyncratic and unabashed vision of queerness as an egalitarian, feminist, anti-capitalist, race-conscious, and defiantly countercultural force. His essays were confessional and adventurous, and drew examples from his own sex life to bolster his structural critiques. That sensibility was in line with the slogan of second-wave feminism, "The personal is political," and it sustained ''Fag Rag'' for thirty issues".<ref>[https://www.cjr.org/special_report/great-magazines-fag-rag.php Jeremy Lybarger, ''Fag Rag: The 70s paper of gay political revolution''. (Columbia Journalism Review, September 11, 2020)].</ref> ''Fag Rag'' supported "what it characterized as adolescents' right to sexual freedom, as well as consensual sex between adults and children"<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> with prominent contributors to the paper including [[NAMBLA]] supporters such as [[NAMBLA]] co-founder [[Tom Reeves]], the poet [[Allen Ginsberg]], and political icon Gore Vidal.		In 1971, he helped form the ''Fag Rag Collective'', which published the first national post-Stonewall gay political journal, ''Fag Rag'', from 1971 to 1987. In ''Fag Rag'' Shively published a series of twelve essays, beginning with "Cocksucking as an Act of Revolution", and continuing with such titles as "Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution," "Bestiality as an Act of Revolution," and "Incest as an Act of Revolution". [[Michael Bronkski]] describes these writings as "an idiosyncratic and unabashed vision of queerness as an egalitarian, feminist, anti-capitalist, race-conscious, and defiantly countercultural force. His essays were confessional and adventurous, and drew examples from his own sex life to bolster his structural critiques. That sensibility was in line with the slogan of second-wave feminism, "The personal is political," and it sustained ''Fag Rag'' for thirty issues".<ref>[https://www.cjr.org/special_report/great-magazines-fag-rag.php Jeremy Lybarger, ''Fag Rag: The 70s paper of gay political revolution''. (Columbia Journalism Review, September 11, 2020)].</ref> ''Fag Rag'' supported "what it characterized as adolescents' right to sexual freedom, as well as consensual sex between adults and children"<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> with prominent contributors to the paper including [[NAMBLA]] supporters such as NAMBLA co-founder [[Tom Reeves]], the poet [[Allen Ginsberg]], and political icon Gore Vidal.

	In 1972, the Fag Rag collective codified its political objectives when Shively and a few associates drove to Miami to deliver a list of ten demands to the Democratic National Convention. ~~Among~~ their requests:		In 1972, the Fag Rag collective codified its political objectives when Shively and a few associates drove to Miami to deliver a list of ten demands to the Democratic National Convention. Broad enough to include all people of any age, their requests included:

	*An end to discrimination based on biology; no government agency should record age, skin color, or gender		*An end to discrimination based on biology; no government agency should record age, skin color, or gender

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'''Charles "Charley" Shively''', (Born 1937; Died Oct 6th, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts), was a gay activist and major figure of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement, described as "one of the pivotal figures in the Gay Liberation Movement".<ref>Michael Bronski, [https://glreview.org/article/charles-shively-pioneer-activist-and-author/ Charles Shively, Pioneer Activist and Author], ''Gay and Lesbian Review'' (Jan-Feb 2018 Issue).</ref> His most well-known scholarship focused on gay / [[pederast]] icon Walt Whitman, arguing that Whitman was in-fact a homosexual, whose relations sometimes involves large age gaps. Academics<ref>[[Rachel Hope Cleves]], ''Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, p. 6).</ref><ref>Kadji Amin. ''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/a4bfa9ca1e6ff4fb00bf63cf570f0c2e Disturbing attachments: Genet, modern pederasty, and queer history]''. Duke University Press, 2017.</ref> and gay icons<ref>See our page on [[Jim Kepner]]</ref><ref>See our page on [[Allen Ginsberg]].</ref> alike, agree, with Shively having published two books on the topic: ''Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados'' (1987)<ref>[https://annas-archive.org/md5/04bc87beac2ea90fa78d8db13f4a5908 Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados] (Annas Archive PDF)</ref> - featuring the chapter ''Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers''<ref>[https://www.nambla.org/whitman.html Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett: Man/Boy Lovers] - NAMBLA Website.</ref> - and ''Drum Beats: Walt Whitman’s Civil War Boy Lovers'' (1989).

To his contemporaries, Shively was known in-part for his 1977 Boston Gay Pride March keynote speech, where he burned his Harvard degree and pages from the Bible, in protest of oppressive institutions. Growing up dirt-poor in rural Ohio, he earned a PhD in history at Harvard, and spent his career teaching first at Boston State University and later at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

In 1971, he helped form the ''Fag Rag Collective'', which published the first national post-Stonewall gay political journal, ''Fag Rag'', from 1971 to 1987. In ''Fag Rag'' Shively published a series of twelve essays, beginning with "Cocksucking as an Act of Revolution", and continuing with such titles as "Indiscriminate Promiscuity as an Act of Revolution," "Bestiality as an Act of Revolution," and "Incest as an Act of Revolution". [[Michael Bronkski]] describes these writings as "an idiosyncratic and unabashed vision of queerness as an egalitarian, feminist, anti-capitalist, race-conscious, and defiantly countercultural force. His essays were confessional and adventurous, and drew examples from his own sex life to bolster his structural critiques. That sensibility was in line with the slogan of second-wave feminism, "The personal is political," and it sustained ''Fag Rag'' for thirty issues".<ref>[https://www.cjr.org/special_report/great-magazines-fag-rag.php Jeremy Lybarger, ''Fag Rag: The 70s paper of gay political revolution''. (Columbia Journalism Review, September 11, 2020)].</ref> ''Fag Rag'' supported "what it characterized as adolescents' right to sexual freedom, as well as consensual sex between adults and children"<ref>''Ibid''.</ref> with prominent contributors to the paper including [[NAMBLA]] supporters such as [[NAMBLA]] co-founder [[Tom Reeves]], the poet [[Allen Ginsberg]], and political icon Gore Vidal.

In 1972, the Fag Rag collective codified its political objectives when Shively and a few associates drove to Miami to deliver a list of ten demands to the Democratic National Convention. Among their requests:

*An end to discrimination based on biology; no government agency should record age, skin color, or gender
*An end to discrimination based on sexual preference
*An end to the traditional family, which should be replaced by cooperative parenting
*A guaranteed annual income for all Americans; the wealth of straight white men should be redistributed
*The disbanding of all armed forces and uniformed police, including the FBI, CIA, IRS, and narcotics squads
*The legalization of sex between all consenting individuals
*Self-government and self-determination of all people<ref>''Ibid''.</ref>

During the 1970s and 80s, Shively was involved in numerous LGBT organizations, was a founding member of ''Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders'' (GLAD), and, along with ''Fag Rag'', wrote frequently for Gay Sunshine, and the [[List_of_MAP-related_magazines|MAP sympathetic]] ''Gay Community News'' and ''The Guide''.

==See also==

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*[[Harry Hay]]
*[[Bill Andriette]]
*[[Joseph Doucé]]
*[[John P. De Cecco]]
*[[Journal of Homosexuality]]
</div>

==References==

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