Provenance
Given to the Archive by Nicholas V. McCausland October 18, 2007.
Use Restrictions
Researchers must subsitute with fictitious names actual names of any living persons referred to in journals or receive permission to publish actual names from those individuals.
Scope and Content
This collection contains journals kept while living in Spain in the first half of the 1970s and in New York City and then Rhinebeck, NY, after 1975. Journals continue through 2001, although there are large gaps of time between later journals. Most books contain taped or pasted photos, newspaper clippings, advertisements, emails, playbills, and other paraphernalia that are cited directly in the text. Early content focuses extensively on a single romantic pursuit of a heterosexually-married male Spaniard while McCausland was living in Madrid on work for a large multi-national corporation. Journals from the early 1980s in New York City and Fire Island also feature romantic and sexual encounters. In 1985 McCausland settled in Rhinebeck, NY, with his partner. This collection is appropriate for anyone interested in sexual mores of gyms in the 1970s and 80s, a history of American gay men living abroad, or an extensive visual representation of a gay man's life over twenty-five years.
History or Bio
Nicholas McCausland was born in 1927. He now lives in Rhinebeck, NY.
Folder List
1. Journals [Oct 1973 - April 1974; July 1974 - Sept 1974]
2. Journals [Sept 1974 - Jan 1975; Jan 1975 - April 1975]
3. Journal [May 1975 - July 1975]
4. Journal [Nov 1975 - Dec 1975]
Box 2
5. Journal [Oct 1977 - March 1978]
6. Journal [Feb 1979 - Jan 1980]
7. Journal [Feb 1980 - Dec 1980]
8. Journal [Dec 1981 - Sept 1982]
9. Journal [Oct 1984 - Nov 1985]
10. Journal [Jan 1992 - Nov 1992]
11. Journal [Dec 1996 - April 1998]
12. Journal [June 1998 - March 2001]
13. Correspondence and emails [1996 - 1998]
