Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains screenplays, manuscripts, and stage adaptations of Silverthorn's original and adapted writings including Campus Faggot, Silverthorn’s coming-out story. Cookie, a tragic fictional autobiography, has numerous iterations as a manuscript, screenplay, and monologue. The bulk of the series are notes, research, and outlines for the “Satan Trilogy,” including drafts of the first book, ...

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Includes photographs from Silverthorn's film Tearoom Scene, and photographs taken during Silverthorns time living in Rochester, New York.

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Includes photographs of extended family members and unidentified friends; and the University of Southern California contingent at the 1977 Christopher Street West gay pride parade.

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This series contains mostly personal photographs from albums documenting Silverthorn’s college and family life between 1970 and 1986. Many loose photos and clippings that had been displayed in his apartments, as well as production stills and tests for Who is Richard Jay Silverthorn Anyway? and other makeup work are also in the collection. Personal headshots and portfolio work of Nick Spitelli are also included.

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Includes photographs of Silverthorn's film makeup work, as well as the Alliance for Gay Artists in the Entertainment Industry (AGA) contingent at an unidentified gay pride parade, circa 1980s.