382 research outputs found
Tim Mayhew Position Statement on Homosexual Liberties prepared for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), December 14, 1971
No full textThis position statement, written by Tim Mayhew, Chairman of the Education Committee of the Seattle Gay Alliance, discusses two key points on homosexual civil liberties. The first being "all people, and specifically gay people, must have guaranteed to them social, emotional, sexual, and financial freedoms." The second statement states, "gay people especially as an oppressed minority need explicit protection of rights by changes in the law."Tim Mayhew was a member of the Seattle Gay Alliance in the early 1970's and served as the chair of its Education Committee, ca. 1972-1975. He was the SGA's lobbyist in Olympia, ca. 1973, and helped found Seattle's first Gay Community Center in 1971. Mayhew was also involved with the Gay Liberation Front. In the late 1970's he served as Seattle editor of the Northwest Gay Review, a gay newspaper based in Portland, and he was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington and served on its Sexual Minorities Committee, ca. 1977-1980. Mayhew lobbied in Olympia again, ca. 1981, on behalf of the Dorian Group, and in 1993 he helped found the Harvey Muggy Lesbian/Gay Democratic Organization.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Tim Mayhew Position Statement on Marriage prepared for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), December 5, 1971
No full textA position statement, written by Tim Mayhew, Education Committee Chairman, Seattle Gay Alliance, presents his views on the topic of homosexual marriage including: "The institution of marriage, as it is presently constituted in law and custom, is discriminatory and prejudicial to the interests of gay marriage and single people."; "The only way to end completely this discrimination is to abolish marriage as a specially recognized state in law."; "The law can better serve the needs of the people by confining itself to specific conflicts of tangible interest, rather than meddling in matters whose effect on such conflicts is only conjectural."; and "Until society is ready to abolish the official status of marriage, present relief from its discriminatory aspects can be obtained by broadening access to marriage, and by abolishing or sharing its privileges with single people."Tim Mayhew was a member of the Seattle Gay Alliance in the early 1970's and served as the chair of its Education Committee, ca. 1972-1975. He was the SGA's lobbyist in Olympia, ca. 1973, and helped found Seattle's first Gay Community Center in 1971. Mayhew was also involved with the Gay Liberation Front. In the late 1970's he served as Seattle editor of the Northwest Gay Review, a gay newspaper based in Portland, and he was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington and served on its Sexual Minorities Committee, ca. 1977-1980. Mayhew lobbied in Olympia again, ca. 1981, on behalf of the Dorian Group, and in 1993 he helped found the Harvey Muggy Lesbian/Gay Democratic Organization.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Tim Mayhew of the American Civil Liberties Union letter to the Sexual Minority Prisoner's Caucus, April 9, 1980
No full textThis letter from Tim Mayhew, Co-Chairperson of American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, Committee on Sexual Minorities, describes the goals of ACLU in general and of the Committee on Sexual Minorities specifically. The letter informs Sexual Minority Prisoner's Caucus that they do want to be involved, but that this involvement would be limited and clearly defined as they have a multitude of existing commitments.Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Position Statement on Homosexual Civil Liberties prepared for the ACLU of Washington, December 14, 1971
No full textThis paper was prepared by Tim Mayhew, chairman of the Education Committee of the Seattle Gay Alliance, and outlines guaranteed freedoms for gay people and protection of those rights by changes in the law.Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
Risking the Personal: Academic Friendship, Feminist Role Models and Katherine Mansfield
No full textThis article celebrates friendship as a valid starting point for scholarly enquiry and uses conversation as a valuable methodology. While completing their doctoral research on modernist short stories and women’s art collectives, co-authors Rydstrand and Mayhew discovered New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield was a contact point between their respective projects. Around 1981, Harridan Screenprinters quoted Mansfield’s injunction to ‘Risk anything’ on a poster, invoking Mansfield as a role model—as a leading modernist author and as a risk-taker. Mayhew later gave Rydstrand a copy of the poster as a thesis submission gift. This article explores interrelations between personal, creative and professional risks, from Mansfield’s avant-garde milieu of the early twentieth century, to the dynamic scene of second-wave feminism in Australia, and finally to the precarious world of the twenty-first century academy, all brought together by the physical artefact of the Mansfield poster. In this threefold engagement, we counter the presumed masculinity of experiment and champion feminine forms of risk.No Full Tex
Seattle Gay Alliance letter to The Seattle Times regarding a recent editorial concerning the gay community, March 21, 1972
No full textLetter written by Tim Mayhew to The Seattle Times in response to a editorials published in a previous edition. The letter gives statistics on gay men and women in the Seattle area, and discusses the negative stereotypes that are given to the gay community.The Seattle Gay Alliance (SGA), formed in 1967, was formerly known as The Dorian Society. The group sought to educate gays and straights about homosexuality, to promote acceptance of gays in the largest society, and to serve as a social organization for gays. Its activities included public speaking, publishing a newsletter, organizing social events, and lobbying the state legislature. SGA was dissolved in 1975.
Homosaurus subject terms and some Contextual Notes were added to this item during the LGBTQ+ Materials Redescription Project in 2023
The Twilight of the Avant-Garde
No full textTwilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Jonathan Mayhew first offers a critical analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis García Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive attempt to 'normalise' poetry, to make it accessible to the common reader, Mayhew views it as a reactionary move that ultimately reduces poetry to the status of a minor genre. The author then turns his attention to the poetry of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, whose poetry embodies the continuation of modernism, and to the work of younger women poets of the last two decades of the twentieth century. Throughout this controversial and provocative book, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the larger culture and society. It turns out that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics is still highly relevant even in an age in which more cynical views of literature seem prevalent. Ultimately, Mayhew writes as an advocate for the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age
Controlling representations of frame matroids
No full textReport on joint work in progress with Dillon Mayhew, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand delivered at the Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics (CANDAM) Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba (June 5-8, 2023).
A matroid is an abstract object that generalises both graphs and vector spaces. Matroids are used to model many types of optimisation problems; often modelling a problem using a matroid can lead to an efficient algorithm for finding optimal solutions. Frame matroids are an important type of matroid, and frame matroids can be represented by biased graphs. Unfortunately, understanding all the biased graph representations of a given frame matroids is difficult, and little is known. We present a theorem which provides a rough biased graphical structure for representations of frame matroids that are sufficiently large, and discuss implications for understanding those substructures that cannot occur in any frame matroid.Conference Presentationmatroid theoryframe matroidsbiased graph
The Twilight of the Avant-Garde
No full textTwilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Jonathan Mayhew first offers a critical analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis García Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive attempt to 'normalise' poetry, to make it accessible to the common reader, Mayhew views it as a reactionary move that ultimately reduces poetry to the status of a minor genre. The author then turns his attention to the poetry of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, whose poetry embodies the continuation of modernism, and to the work of younger women poets of the last two decades of the twentieth century. Throughout this controversial and provocative book, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the larger culture and society. It turns out that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics is still highly relevant even in an age in which more cynical views of literature seem prevalent. Ultimately, Mayhew writes as an advocate for the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age
The Twilight of the Avant-Garde
No full textTwilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Jonathan Mayhew first offers a critical analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis García Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive attempt to 'normalise' poetry, to make it accessible to the common reader, Mayhew views it as a reactionary move that ultimately reduces poetry to the status of a minor genre. The author then turns his attention to the poetry of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, whose poetry embodies the continuation of modernism, and to the work of younger women poets of the last two decades of the twentieth century. Throughout this controversial and provocative book, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the larger culture and society. It turns out that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics is still highly relevant even in an age in which more cynical views of literature seem prevalent. Ultimately, Mayhew writes as an advocate for the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age
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