Warren Allen Smith is an American

United States

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 gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist

Humanism

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. In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway

Broadway (New York City)

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, New York City

New York City

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, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90). In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots

Stonewall riots

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Award

• Leavey Award, by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
  Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
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   1985 - was awarded $7,500 by architect Charles Luckman
  Charles Luckman
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   as one of fifteen recipients ot the annual Leavey Awards, received for a syllabus to teach Adam Smith clubs and classes in high schools.

Works

• Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-Theists, (NY: Barricade Books, 2000) ISBN 978-1569801581. The work received a front-page review/interview in The New York Observer and a CNN
  CNN
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   interview by Jeanne Moos
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• Gossip from Across the Pond: Articles Published in the United Kingdom's Gay and Lesbian Humanist, 1996-2005, New York, N.Y.: chelCpress, 2005. ISBN 978-1583969168
• 2005 Cruising the Deuce - a serious study of the 1940s to 1980s subculture on New York City's 42nd Street; foreword by Dr. Vern L. Bullough, fellow and former President, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex; copy was requested by the Kinsey Institute; John Waters
  John Waters
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   asked to use the book as a prop in a 2005 movie.
• Celebrities in Hell (NY: ChelCbooks, 2010). ISBN 9781569802144 - a listing of contemporary non-revelationists including Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  , Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando
  Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...
  
  , Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
  
  , Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
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  , Christopher Reeve
  Christopher Reeve
  Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist...
  
  , and Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
  
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• In the Heart of Showbiz, A Biographical Triography of Variety Recording Studio, Fernando Vargas, and Warren Allen Smith (NY:ChelCbooks, 2011) - an autobiography

Columns

• 1994-1998 - "Humanist Potpourri". Free Inquiry; "Paul Cadmus: Artist-Humanist," August 1996
• 1970s - "Manhattan Scene," in St. Thomas' Daily News and twenty other West Indian newspapers

External links

• Official Website