Randy Wicker Archive GuideMattachino, journalist, button sloganeer, vlogger, human-cloning activist, trans activist. ✌️❤️🌈
This collection is now in processing at the LGBT Community Center National History Archive in New York City.
Click here to explore the archive
Explore everything listed in the guide below,
plus Randy’s correspondence, press, annual Xmas letters 1976-2003,
and more queer history in the archive here.
(“Grid layout” is recommended.)
For inquiries please contact Randy’s archivist Devlyn Camp here or at queerserial@gmail.com. Contact Randy Wicker directly at rhwicker@optonline.net.
Activism
1958-60 University of Texas
1958-69 Mattachine Society
1961-66 Homosexual League of New York
1964 Sex Freedom League
1965 LeMar (Legalize Marijuana)
1970s Gay Activist Alliance
1978 Gay Conservative Alliance
1978-present Hoboken
1991-2 Irish Lesbian & Gay Organization
1990s NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
1992 Take Back the Day
1994 It Didn’t All Start With Stonewall
1996-2000s Clone Rights United Front
1998 Matthew Shepard protest
2010s LGBT Russians
Journalism
1960s men’s magazines (tit books)
1962-66 WBAI radio
1963 “The Lesbians” for Escapade
1963 1964 World’s Fair for The Nation
1964 Gamblers & freak shows for Escapade
1964 Heroin addiction for Herald-Tribune
1964 “Do Homos Want To Be Cured?” for Uncensored
1965 Sexual underground for Jaguar
1965 V.D. for The Realist
1966 “How Homos Dodge the Draft” for The Lowdown
1966 “Army Is Unfair to Homosexuals” for National Insider
1969 “Up the Ass Is A Gas” for Screw
1969-74 “The Wicker Basket” columns for GAY newspaper
1972 “Gay Bankrobber” of Dog Day Afternoon
1972 “Now It’s S&M Liberation” for The Advocate
1974 “Boys! Boys! Boys!” for ERA
1974 Slim News
1977 “Will You Remember What’s-Her-Name?” (Anita Bryant) for GaysWeeks
1989 “AIDS, Atheism, & Me” for PWA Coalition Newsline
1990s “Marriage Is A Heterosexual Trap” for Gay Today
1994 Stonewall Perspectives for Detour’s New York
BUSINESS
Underground Uplift Unlimited counterculture button shop
28 St. Mark’s Place
1967-1972
Uplift Lighting & Antiques
506 Hudson St.
1974-2003
Wicker Family, Friends, & Photos
Photo Album 1: Randy
Photo Album 2: Big Queer Family
Photo Album 3: Wicker Family at Uplift Lighting
Photo Album 4: Guys, Tricks, & Romantic Persons of Interest
Photo Album 5: Events
Photo Album 6: Hotel Wicker
Featuring Agosto Machado, Andrew Glowko, Barbara Gittings & Kay ‘Tobin’ Lahusen, Bernadette Hanson, Brenden Fey, Chelsea Goodwin & Rusty Mae Moore, Christian Vega, Coco Rodriguez (daughter), David Combs (husband), Edward Lacey, Efrain Gonzalez, Eric Cervini, Frank Kameny, George Flimlin, George Heath, Jack Nichols, Jamie Hunter, Jesse Pallotta, John Heliker, John Klar, Lavar Oliver, Marsha P. Johnson (house mother), Michael Gerdowsky (partner), Nelson Anderson, Peter Ogren, Prescott Townsend, Rollerena, Rumi Missabu, Suzanne Phillips, Sylvia Rivera, Tourmaline, Willie Brashears (son)
Books featuring Randy
1966 New York Unexpurgated by Petronius
1966 The Exacting Ear: An Anthology of Programs from WBAI
1971 The Gay Militants by Donn Teal
1972 The Gay Crusaders by Kay Tobin Lahusen & Randy Wicker
1980 Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture by Abbie Hoffman
1983 Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities by John D’Emilio
1995 Greenwich Village Guide by Robert Heide & John Gilman
1996 Straight News by Edward Alwood
2003 Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion by Brian Alexander
2004 Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Cloning
2006 Behind the Mask of the Mattachine by James Sears
2007 Leading the Parade by Paul D. Cain
2011 Lost Passport by Fraser Sutherland & Edward Lacey
2014 Gay Is Good: Letters of Franklin Kameny edited by Michael G. Long
2020 Button Power by Christen Carter & Ted Hake
2020 The Deviant’s War by Eric Cervini
2021 Hippie Hitchhiker from Nebraska by Randy Rhody
2022 Women’s House of Detention by Hugh Ryan
videos & more Photos
Randy’s YouTube
Randy’s Vimeo
Randy’s Veoh
Randy’s Flickr
NEW: Randy on Hoboken Talks, June 2022
Socials
Explore more fun & interesting social media from the
Wicker/Johnson archive at queerserial.com/morerandy!
Explore more fun & interesting social media from the
Wicker/Johnson archive at queerserial.com/morerandy!
Above: Currently in production with Viridian Coast Studios, a documentary about the life of this legend and his extraordinary queer family, Randy Wicker’s Uplift. Directed by Devlyn Camp & Jim Mauro.
