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  Amazon.ca: The Front Runner: Books: Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Patricia Nell Warren's depiction of two gay athletes in the 1970s is filled with so much that's positive about being gay: Harlan and Billy form a strong, monogamous relationship and don't hide it from the rest of the world.
Warren was a long-distance runner herself and draws from her experiences to give a realistic view of the amateur sports world, especially when it comes to the politics of jsut being able to compete.
Patricia Nell Warren wrote an amazing, timeless, authentic, and accurate portrayal of gay life in the 70's, including all the feelings and struggles for equal rights, at that time, many of which are still prevalent today.
www.amazon.ca /Front-Runner-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109964   (2444 words)

  
 Patricia Nell Warren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patricia Nell Warren is a lesbian-identified American author born in1936.
Warren, aka "Patches", to her Frontrunners family also frequented the runs and the annual dinners held by the Los Angeles group and partipated in the annual Christopher Street West GLBT rights parade as part of the Frontrunners contingent during the 1990s thanks to then president Marty Freedman and then executive board member Don Norte.
Patricia Nell Warren often travels at the invitation of gay rights and other non-profit groups, and is highly regarded as a speaker.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Nell_Warren   (266 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Warren, Patricia Nell
Warren's well-crafted narratives center on stalwart gay protagonists who must deal with the personal and political ramifications of mid-1970s American society confronting a burgeoning gay liberation movement.
By tracing the process of the pair's discovery, acknowledgment, and acceptance of their gayness, Warren is able to address the clash between gay identity and spirituality and the restrictiveness of church dogma and small-town conservatism.
Warren creates a trio of diverse gay characters standing in opposition to the ex-beauty queen turned state senator, including two gay police officers who are her first major lesbian character and first major gay exotic character.
www.glbtq.com /literature/warren_pn.html   (627 words)

  
 Patricia Nell Warren Still A Frontrunner - Outsports.com
When Patricia Nell Warren published The Front Runner, a novel about a distance running coach and his lover and star athlete, in 1974, the notion of a top athlete being gay was an inconceivable idea.
Growing up in Montana in the late `40s, Warren had always had an affinity for sports, though her outlets were limited: there was no girls’ track team and, in girls’ softball and basketball, there were limits written into the rules on how much running was allowed.
Warren can see parallels between the battle she and other women had to fight in the sports world, and the social battle that now faces gay men in college and professional sports.
www.outsports.com /difference/pnw.htm   (1902 words)

  
 Wildcat International
Patricia Nell Warren was born in 1936 and grew up on the prestigious Grant Kohrs cattle ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana.
Today, Patricia Nell Warren’s novels have become essential gay literature for bookstores, libraries and college courses worldwide and, according to recent surveys of independent book sales, are the most popular novels among classic gay literature.
Warren and her company are now in the process of establishing the Patricia Nell Warren Endowment Fund, which supports creatively gifted but financially challenged youth.
www.patricianellwarren.com   (1267 words)

  
 Health & HIV
When Patricia Nell Warren published "The Front Runner," a novel about a distance running coach and his lover and star athlete, in 1974, the notion of a top athlete being gay was inconceivable.
A woman athlete in a man's world Growing up in Montana in the late '40s, Warren had always had an affinity for sports, though her outlets were limited: There was no girls' track team and, in girls' softball and basketball, there were limits written into the rules on how much running was allowed.
Warren continues to receive e-mails from gay runners in high school and college who, born long after the book was written, connected with the story of Harlan and Billy and their fight for survival in the homophobic world of sports.
www.planetout.com /health/hiv/?sernum=1841   (1858 words)

  
 Landmark Gay Novelist Publishes First Nonfiction Book: Patricia Nell Warren’s Lavender Locker Room Out In November
Warren’s previous works, including "The Front Runner," "Harlan’s Race," "Billy’s Boy," "The Wild Man," and "One Is The Sun," represent a distinguished literary career of four decades and are considered essential inventory by booksellers who carry gay fiction.
Warren’s latest offering is an anthology of historical essays previously featured on OutSports.com which chronicle the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender athletes over the past three millennia.
Warren’s most celebrated work, "The Front Runner," about the relationship between an ex-Marine track coach and his male athlete, was the first contemporary novel with openly gay characters to make the New York Times Bestseller List, has sold an estimated ten million copies in ten languages.
prweb.com /releases/2006/10/prweb451681.htm   (681 words)

  
 Passport Magazine - Patricia Nell Warren, Author Publisher Champion of Free Speech
Warren’s home, while her impressive garden, full of native plants and happy roses, fills me with a sense of serenity.
Warren landed on the New York Times best seller list in 1974 with her breakout gay novel, The Front Runner.
Warren was raised on a Montana cattle ranch.
www.passportmagazine.com /40/Warren.php   (197 words)

  
 Introduction - Patricia Nell Warren - Lodestar Quarterly
In 1957, Patricia Nell Warren married writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, one of two million Western Ukrainian refugees who had emigrated to the U.S. after their homeland was occupied by Soviet Communist troops during World War II.
Warren's work was even circulated underground in Soviet Ukraine itself, and eventually some of her poems were published there, in the country's leading literary magazine, during the late 1960s, when Ukraine began to liberalize and move towards the eventual fall of Communism.
Warren has written in more detail of her Ukrainian years in an article titled "A Tragedy of Bees: My Years as a Poet in Exile 1959-1973." It appears in the anthology The Best of The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, edited by Richard Schneider and published in 1997 by Temple University Press.
www.lodestarquarterly.com /work/111   (849 words)

  
 John R Selig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
My friendship with Patricia Nell Warren began four years ago when she sent me a response to a column that was published by the Arizona Republic.
Patricia wrote “The Front Runner” in the eight weeks during the spring of 1973 while working as an editor at Readers Digest, divorcing her abusive husband and coming out of the closet.
With Patricia in her desk chair and me in a plastic chair from by her computer, we poured through a plastic paged book filled with her articles on her Grand Champion Somali cats and others on the fierce wildcats from Central and South America that became the moniker for Patricia’s and Tyler’s publishing house.
homepage.mac.com /j_selig/commentary/icon   (1049 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Wild Man: Books: Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Warren, best known for The Front Runner, the ground-breaking novel about a gay athlete, has created another gay sports figure in her first work in four years.
Warren paints Spain with brushstrokes both honest and loving, portraying a place that is both physically beautiful and at times, brutally cruel.
Patricia Nell Warren wrote the definitive gay novel obver 20 years ago with her landmark novel THE FRONT RUNNER.
www.amazon.com /Wild-Man-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/1889135054   (2517 words)

  
 Out In The Mountains : Arts & Entertainment - Queer Classics: Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner
This style allows her to cut quickly to the romance at the novel’s core, yet also to explore a wide range of gay issues—coming out, discrimination in athletics, sodomy laws, gay marriage and parenting—some of which were quite ahead of their time.
Warren was a pioneer in shining the focus away from self-hatred and towards societal hatred—Its irrationality, the damage it inflicts on gay lives.
Warren is also a passionate youth advocate and an outspoken activist, writing frequently about such issues as ageism and censorship.
www.mountainpridemedia.org /oitm/issues/2001/aug2001/ae10_qclassics.htm   (745 words)

  
 Lesbian Celebrities - Patricia Nell Warren
Former Reader's Digest editor Patricia Nell Warren has written six novels, including The Front Runner, which made The New York Times' best-seller list in 1974 and has continued to be one of the top-selling gay novels of all time.
She was the Community Grand Marshal for the 1995 LA Pride, and made personal appearances at Atlanta Pride, the Sacramento Freedom Fair, and Orange County Cultural Pride.
Warren, who has written several other bestsellers and published four books of poetry, has attracted an estimated 20 million readers with her diverse literary subjects ranging from gay and lesbian life to Native American philosophy.
www.lesbianworlds.com /business/warren.htm   (506 words)

  
 Outlines Chicago Gay News Entertainment
Although Patricia Nell Warren has been a published writer for 40 years, she is best known to lesbians and gay men for her 1974 groundbreaking novel The Front Runner, and the two sequels Harlan´s Race and Billy´s Boys.
Warren: I think the answer has to start with my life and the circumstances under which I wrote the book, because I was under extreme life and death stress at that time, about coming out, and about who I was, after many years of denial and 16 years of marriage.
Warren: Oh I think so, and I´ve continued The Front Runner series, and there´s now a sequel that covers the ´ 80s called Harlan´s Race, and there´s the ´ 90s which is Billy´s Boys, and that follows the same group of people through 20 years.
www.windycitymediagroup.com /archives/warren112499.html   (1876 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Harlan's Race: A Novel: Books: Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Patricia Nell Warren is the landmark author of some of the most popular gay novels of all time.
Warren’s novels have also sold heavily to libraries and are used in numerous college courses.
Nell Warren succeeds in keeping Harlan's voice a barometer of the changing times as the seventies gives way to the somewhat more tolerant 80s.The backbone of the book is really a mystery novel with an apparent accomplice in Billy's murder still loose and aiming at Harlan.
www.amazon.com /Harlans-Race-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109956   (2409 words)

  
 Malaspina Great Books - Patricia Warren (1936)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Patricia Nell Warren, like many others, sees Montana as possibly the "last best place" in America.
Patricia Nell Warren speaks of Montana and its legacy like a mother speaking proudly of her growing child.
When Patricia Nell Warren charges forth it is not the sound of hoofbeats one hears, but the beat of one's own heart.
www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=316   (899 words)

  
 The Wordsmith Profile a reader's guide to contemporary literature: Patricia Nell Warren (part 1) - GAGV News - The ...
Patricia Nell Warren was born in 1936, and grew up on a cattle ranch near Deer Lodge, Montana.
Patricia Nell Warren is also juggling time with working on a new novel called Wrong Side of the Tracks, and writing a series of articles on gay pioneers in sports history for Outsports.com.
Warren is also busy with a very demanding lecture tour and conducts many writers’ workshops throughout the year.
ec.gayalliance.org /articles/000444.shtml   (1276 words)

  
 University of North Texas News Service - Author Patricia Nell Warren to be featured at UNT's 3rd Annual Diverse Women's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Patricia Nell Warren--the author of "The Frontrunner " and the forthcoming book "The Lavender Locker Room"--will again serve as the moderator for the University of North Texas' 3rd annual Diverse Women's Seminar Nov. 3 (Friday).
Warren's latest work, "The Lavender Locker Room," is her first non-fiction book and will be published Nov. 1 (Wednesday).
Warren will be speaking about "The Lavender Locker Room" in her workshop relating to women in professional and educational sports today.
web2.unt.edu /news/story.cfm?story=10032   (711 words)

  
 Testimony of Patricia Nell Warren
Warren, and so we therefore 6 offer into evidence the affidavit which she signed on the 7 15th of March and which was filed in this case on the 19th.
22 THE WITNESS: Patricia, P-A-T-R-I-C-I-A, Nell, N-E- 23 L-L, Warren, W-A-R-R-E-N. 24 PATRICIA NELL WARREN, Affirmed.
Warren, one thing I'm not clear 2 about with respect to Wildcat Press, you are -- you have an 3 interest in Wildcat Press, as I understand in your 4 declaration?
www.ciec.org /transcripts/Mar_21_Warren.html   (1342 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Harlan's Race: English Books: Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Warren had established so much history in the original book, The Front Runner, that this sequel works on many levels.
Warren gave her characters flesh, blood, and oxygen that had been so lacking in so many previous gay themed novels.
I'm not sure that Warren has to wait so long to write it, but I do appreciate the perspective she offers of a group of men and women's lives over time.
www.amazon.de /Harlans-Race-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109905   (1096 words)

  
 outinamerica.com - ** Outspoken novelist, investigative journalist, political acti...
One of the most celebrated and controversial writers of her time, Patricia Nell Warren first came to prominence in 1974 with her groundbreaking, best-selling novel "The Front Runner" and has remained a prolific power in the literary world and beyond.
Warren and Wildcat Press are now in the process of establishing the Patricia Nell Warren Endowment Fund, which will support creatively gifted but financially challenged GLBT youth.
Warren is one of the true pioneers of the modern women's liberation and gay rights movements and has actively worked to forge new ground in protecting and ensuring human rights.
www.outinamerica.com /home/news.asp?articleid=30047   (649 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Billy's Boy: English Books: Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Warren's (Harlan's Race, Wildcat, 1994) ability to understand this character and tell his story in the lingo of 1990s youth is remarkable.
Billy's Boy does have a promising ending.It is a book that while kids can appreciate it, I would hope that teachers and clinicians familiarize themselves with this book and others like it, in order to help that kid who might choose you to confide their sexual doubts to.
I am surprised as always that a female writer (Pat Warren) could capture some of the more unique feelings that is the essence of gay life.
www.amazon.de /Billys-Boy-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/096410993X   (1840 words)

  
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[Patricia's comments to the NAS panel that I forwarded on Saturday were cut off.
Patricia Nell Warren Subj: Comments on National Academy of Science workshop/online porn Date: 01/05/2001 5:54:39 PM Pacific Standard Time From: WildcatPrs To: itas@nas.edu, Gpritcha@Nas.Edu, Dllata@Nas.Edu CC: WildcatPrs To: Dr.
Sincerely yours, Patricia Nell Warren Wildcat Press 8306 Wilshire Blvd. Box 8306 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 323/966-2466 phone    323/966-2467 fax  Copyright 2001 by Patricia Nell Warren.
www.politechbot.com /p-01615.html   (3480 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union : Online Free Speech - Client, Patricia Nell Warren
Freedom of speech is protected in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and is guaranteed to all Americans.
Learn more and take action to protect the right to free speech.
Patricia Nell Warren is a member of the ACLU, an investigative journalist, a columnist and an author of gay and lesbian books, including The Front Runner.
www.aclu.org /freespeech/internet/27134res20061020.html   (494 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union : Free Speech Challenge to Internet Censorship Law
ACLU client Patricia Nell Warren was asked by Judge Stewart Dalzell how she would be affected by a ruling that the Internet censorship law was constitutional.
Warren, a best-selling author and publisher who maintains a website featuring samples of classic gay literature, said she feared censorship.
Warren also publishes Youth Arts, a free online "e-zine" by and for teenagers which includes many works by gay and lesbian teens.
www.aclu.org /privacy/speech/15677prs19960322.html?s_src=RSS   (794 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Front Runner: A Novel: Books: Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Consequently, Warren took nothing for granted: she created that context through a series of meticulously described backgrounds, something that made the book widely accessible to mainstream readers.
Warren's words, we see the pain and confusion that his sexual identity has caused him.
Patricia Nell Warren's writing style is one of the best I have ever found.
www.amazon.com /Front-Runner-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109964   (2101 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union
But no American should be compelled to swear by a religion or deity that they don't hold sacred in their personal life.
Posted by Patricia Nell Warren in Free Speech at 6:16 PM
Posted by Patricia Nell Warren in Free Speech at 3:11 PM
blog.aclu.org /index.php?/authors/31-Patricia-Nell-Warren   (674 words)

  
 LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth 7/25/97 - Patricia Nell Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Patricia Nell Warren, author of The Front Runner will be at Lambda Rising Bookstore in Rehoboth Beach, Saturday, July 26th from 3 to 5 p.m.
Warren will be in Rehoboth as the guest of PFLAG Sussex County at Rehoboth (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) helping the young chapter raise funds and consciousness.
Warren’s travel by purchasing tickets for a 50/50 Raffle.
www.camprehoboth.com /issue07-25-97/warren.htm   (388 words)

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