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Wayne R. Dynes (August 23, 1934 – late July 2021) was an American art historian, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was professor emeritus in the Art Department at
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, where he taught from 1972 to 2005. Dynes spent his early years in southern California, where he attended UCLA and received his B.A. in 1969. After extended sojourns in Italy and England, he settled permanently in Manhattan, where he obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. The subject of his dissertation was the eleventh-century illuminated Stavelot Bible from Belgium. His training as a medievalist provided the basic core of his college teaching, first at
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, then at Hunter College. During the 1960s Dynes was a member of the
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of New York. He was in Europe at the time of the
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in Greenwich Village in June 1969. After returning in 1973 he collaborated with Jack Stafford, a librarian, to work on one of many bibliographies of gay studies. This interest ultimately yielded his ''Homosexuality: A Research Guide'' (1987), followed by his work as editor-in-chief of the two-volume ''
Encyclopedia of Homosexuality The ''Encyclopedia of Homosexuality'' (1990) was edited by Wayne R. Dynes, with the assistance of associate editors William A. Percy, Warren Johansson, and Stephen Donaldson. It was published in two volumes by Garland Press in 1990. The Encyclo ...
'' (Garland, 1990).


Works

* ''The Styles of European Art'' (with Richard Waterhouse et al.). London: Thames & Hudson, 1965. * '' Bartolomeu Dos Santos: Graphic Works''. London: Graphic Art Associates, 1967. * ''Palaces of Europe''. Great Buildings of the World. London: Hamlyn, 1968. * ''Cloister Symposium, 1972'' (coeditor, with Florens Deuchler). Fort Tryon Park: International Center of Medieval Art, 1973. * "Concept of Gothic", in ''Dictionary of the History of Ideas'', pp. 367–374. New York: Scribners, 1973. * ''The Illuminations of the Stavelot Bible''. New York: Garland, 1978. * ''Gay Books Bulletin'' (editor). Nos. 1–9. New York: Scholarship Committee of the New York Chapter of the
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, 1982–83. Continued under the title ''The Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin''. Nos. 10–12. 1984–85. * "Afterword", in ''Reflections on the American Homosexual Rights Movement'' by Jim Levin, pp. 45–51. Gai Saber Monograph, no. 2. New York: Gay Academic Union, 1983. * ''Homolexis: A Historical and Cultural Lexicon of Homosexuality''. Gai Saber Monograph, no. 4. New York: Gay Academic Union, 1985. * '' Hieronymus Bosch and the Canticle of Isaiah'' (with Marshall Neal Myers). New York: Cabirion Press, 1987. * ''Homosexuality: A Research Guide''. Garland Reference Library of Social Science, vol. 313. New York: Garland, 1987; London: Routledge, 2019. (Available onlin
here
) * "Art, Language and Romanesque", in ''Gesta / International Center of Medieval Art'', vol. 28 (1989), pp. 3–10. * ''Encyclopedia of Homosexuality'' (editor-in-chief; associate editors: Stephen Donaldson,
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, and
William A. Percy William Armstrong Percy III (December 10, 1933 – October 30, 2022) was an American professor, historian, encyclopedist, and gay activist. He taught from 1968 at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and started publishing in gay stud ...
). 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1990. (Available onlin
here
) * ''Major Lines of Investigation in Gay/Lesbian Studies: Critical Synopses of the History and Methodology of Scholarship'' (with Stephen Donaldson). New York: by the authors, 1992. * ''Studies in Homosexuality'' (coeditor with Stephen Donaldson). 13 vols. New York: Garland, 1992. Vol. 1: ''Homosexuality in the Ancient World''. Vol. 2: ''Ethnographic Studies of Homosexuality''. Vol. 3: ''Asian Homosexuality''. Vol. 4: ''Homosexuality and Homosexuals in the Arts''. Vol. 5: ''History of Homosexuality in Europe and America''. Vol. 6: ''Homosexuality: Discrimination, Criminology, and the Law''. Vol. 7: ''Lesbianism''. Vol. 8: ''Homosexual Themes in Literary Works''. Vol. 9: ''Homosexuality and Medicine, Health, and Science''. Vol. 10: ''Homosexuality and Government, Politics and Prisons''. Vol. 11: ''Homosexuality and Psychology, Psychiatry, and Counseling''. Vol. 12: ''Homosexuality and Religion and Philosophy''. Vol. 13: ''Sociology of Homosexuality''. * Series Editor’s Foreword, in ''Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy'', pp. ix–xi. Ed. by Edward Stein. Garland Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 1. New York: Garland, 1992. * “Wrestling with the Social Boa Constructor”, in ''Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy'', pp. 209–238. Ed. by Edward Stein. Garland Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 1. New York: Garland, 1992. * "Hispanic Homosexuals: A Spanish Lexicon" (with Stephen O. Murray), in ''Latin American Male Homosexualities'', pp. 180–192. Ed. by Stephen O. Murray. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. * "Portugayese" (with Stephen O. Murray), in ''Latin American Male Homosexualities'', pp. 256–263. Ed. by Stephen O. Murray. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. * "
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: In Search of a Discipline", in ''Academic Questions'', vol. 8, no. 4 (1995), pp. 34–52. * "The Return of the
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", in ''Journal of Sex Research'', vol. 32, no. 4 (1995), pp. 335–337. * "Medievalism and
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", in ''Gesta / International Center of Medieval Art'', vol. 45 (2006), no. 2, pp. 89–94. * ''Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century''. New York: Bertha and Karl Lwubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1997. * ''The Mind of the Beholder: History, Theory, and Criticism of Art''. New York: by the author, 1998. * "Light in Hellas: How German Classical Philology Engendered Gay Scholarship", in ''Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West'', pp. 341–356. Ed. by Beert C Verstraete and Vernon Provencal. London: Routledge, 2005. Simultaneously published in ''Journal of Homosexuality'', vol. 49, nos. 3–4 (2005), pp. 341–356. * "Homolexis Glossary". 2008. Availabl
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* * ''Change, Eros, Culture: A Memoir''. New York: Lulu, 2014. * ''The Homophobic Mind''. New York: Lulu, 2014.


References

* "Wayne R. Dynes," in ''Gay and Lesbian Literature''. Detroit: Gale, 1994.
"Wayne R. Dynes," ''lgtb-today.com''



External links


Dynes blog ''Dyneslines''

Dynes blog ''Homolexis''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dynes, Wayne R. 1934 births 2021 deaths 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers LGBT rights activists from the United States University of California, Los Angeles alumni New York University alumni Columbia University faculty Hunter College faculty Historians of LGBT topics American gay writers Lambda Literary Award winners Stonewall Book Award winners 21st-century American male writers People from Fort Worth, Texas