{"id":1533,"date":"2014-12-28T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2014-12-27T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T00:26:18","slug":"in-memoriam-james-duggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1533","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: James Duggins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman (thanks to Nel Ward for the tip)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lambda Literary founding figure James Duggins has passed away at 81. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdaliterary.org\/features\/rem\/12\/15\/in-remembrance-james-duggins\/?utm_source=Lambda+Literary+Review+December+19th%2C+2014&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletters&amp;utm_medium=email\">Lambda Literary:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-sr=\"ease-in\" data-sr-id=\"6\">He was among the first to join the fight for LGBT rights in the UC university system, a crusader for partnership benefits. His lifelong passions were community and equality and he became a philanthropist extraordinaire in support of the community he loved: a major donor to Horizons Foundation, NCLR, Lambda Literary, and other organizations he deemed to be at the forefront of the struggle for our civil rights.<\/p>\n<p data-sr=\"ease-in\" data-sr-id=\"7\">A noted and notable writer and critic of historical fiction, he studied the craft under James Michener. His early work includes co-authorship of <em>Hooked on Books<\/em> (Berkley), and <em>Teaching Reading for Human Values<\/em> (Charles Merrill). He wrote many articles for academic journals such as <em>The English Journal<\/em>, <em>The Journal of Reading<\/em>, <em>Wilson Library Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-sr=\"ease-in\" data-sr-id=\"7\">The full obituary at Lambda Literary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdaliterary.org\/features\/rem\/12\/15\/in-remembrance-james-duggins\/?utm_source=Lambda+Literary+Review+December+19th%2C+2014&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletters&amp;utm_medium=email\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman (thanks to Nel Ward for the tip) Lambda Literary founding figure James Duggins has passed away at 81. Via Lambda Literary: He was among the first to join the fight for LGBT rights in the UC university system, a crusader for partnership benefits. His lifelong passions were community and equality and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,64,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-in-memoriam","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}