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

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and received his B.A. in 1969. After extended sojourns in Italy and England, he settled permanently in

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, where he obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of

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. The subject of his dissertation was the eleventh-century illuminated

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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 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. * ''

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and the

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'' (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,

Warren Johansson Warren Johansson (February 21, 1934 – June 10, 1994) was a philologist, author and a leading American gay scholar during his lifetime. He was founding member of the Scholarship Committee of the Gay Academic Union. Biography Warren Johansson wa ...

, and William A. Percy). 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

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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:

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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
online
* * ''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''
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