article_title name birth_date occupation
wayne r. dynes
 wayne r. dynes 23 august 1934 professor , historian , and encyclopedist
wayne r. dynes

wayne r. dynes -lrb- born august 23 , 1934 -rrb- is an american art historian , encyclopedist , and bibliographer .
he is professor emeritus in the art department at hunter college , where he taught from 1972 to 2005 .
dynes spent his early years in southern california , where he attended ucla and received his b.a. in 1969 .
after extended sojourns in italy and england , he settled permanently in manhattan , new york city where he obtained his ph.d. from the institute of fine arts of new york university .
the subject of his art-history dissertation was an eleventh-century illuminated bible from belgium .
his training as a medievalist provided the basic core of his college teaching -lrb- first at columbia , then at hunter college -rrb- .
during the 1960s dynes was a member of the mattachine society of new york -lrb- msny -rrb- .
he was in europe at the time of the stonewall uprising in greenwich village in june 1969 .
after returning in 1973 he collaborated with jack stafford , a librarian , to work on one many bibliographies of gay studies .
this interest ultimately yielded his volume `` homosexuality : a research guide '' -lrb- 1987 -rrb- , followed by his work as editor-in-chief of the two-volume `` encyclopedia of homosexuality '' -lrb- garland , 1990 -rrb- .
