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Gregory Hinton papers, 1981-2022

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hinton, Gregory
Title
Gregory Hinton papers
Dates
1981-2022 (inclusive)
Quantity
10.98 cubic ft. (13 boxes) + 13.63 GB
Collection Number
12604
Summary
These are the scripts, research files, manuscript proofs, emails, VHS and DVD recordings, and oral history of an author, filmmaker, and playwright. He was interested in documenting the experiences of gay life in the American West.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Gregory Hinton was an author, filmmaker, playwright, and curator. Hinton's work as a playwright included "Beyond Brokeback" and "Diversity Day", a staged reenactment of contentious Missoula City Council public testimony. Hinton was involved in three staged readings of the marriage equality play "8". Hinton's work in feature films included producing the AIDS drama, "It's My Party" (1996). He also wrote and produced the controversial film "Circuit" (2002). Hinton's published novels include: "Cathedral City" (2001), "Desperate Hearts" (2002), "The Way Things Ought to Be" (2003), and "Santa Monica Canyon" (2007). Hinton worked as an independent curator, partnering with museums, libraries, and universities in ten states to create and produce "Out West", a historical public program which included a series of plays, films, lectures, and exhibitions dedicated to the history and culture of diverse communities in the American West.

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Content Description

This collection contains documents related to Gregory Hinton's accomplishments and works, particularly "Out West", "Beyond Brokeback", "Cathedral City", "Desperate Hearts", "The Way Things Ought to Be", and "Santa Monica Canyon". Collection also contains files detailing his film experiences, such as "It's My Party" and "Circuit", awards received by Hinton, posters of his works, files about Hinton's family, and an oral history interview by the American Heritage Center "Out West in the Rockies" oral history program.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

Donor retains copyright. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Gregory Hinton at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Gregory Hinton from 2014-2023.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Molly Marcusse in April 2015. Additions made by Molly Marcusse in August 2015 and updated by Jamie Greene in November 2016, March 2019, and November 2023.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

    • Description: "8", Las Vegas Library
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: "8", Bozeman Library
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: "8", KCATF/7 Staging LGBT Oral History
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: AAA GLBTQ Alliance, AAM Expo 2014, Seattle, WA
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Articles, Autry, BBCW, Eiteljorg, Coloradan, Hinton Paper
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Articles for "S.M.C."
      Dates:
      Container: Box 4,
      Location:
    • Description: Articles for "S.M.C."
      Dates:
      Container: Box 4,
      Location:

    • Audio Visual:

      • Description: DVD: The Eyes of Don Bachardy
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: David Hockney Pleasures of the Eye
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: Ron's Interview of Gregory Hinton
        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: North Shore
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: Reform School Girls
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: Getting Right
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: Directing: How to Get There
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: Worldwide Documentaries "A Closer Walk"
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: DVD: Circuit
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: DVD: It's My Party
        Dates:
        Container: Box 7,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: VHS: Gregory Hinton book signing
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: "A Sissy in Wyoming" at the Nicolysen Art Museum, Casper, Wy
        Dates: October 24, 2021
        Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_12604_006
        Location: / Audio Visual:
      • Description: Presentation for Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 7
        Dates: February 18, 2022
        Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_12604_006
        Location: / Audio Visual:
    • Description: Awards & Documents - Gregory Hinton
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 9
      Location:
    • Description: Awards: IGRA President's award
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 9
      Location:
    • Description: Beyond Brokeback, Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, Laramie
      Dates: 2011
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Beyond Brokeback, One City/One Pride, West Hollywood
      Dates: 2011
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Beyond Brokeback, Bozeman Public Library
      Dates: 2011
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Beyond Brokeback, Roosevelt University Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL
      Dates: 2011
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Book: "Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo" edited by Johanna M. Blume, Assistant Curator of Western Art - Eiteljorg Museum
      Dates: 2016
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: CNN "This Is Life" With Lisa Ling, Gay Rodeo
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Cathedral City - Legal, Representation, Promo, Kensington Publishing,
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Cathedral City - Agency Representation
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Cathedral City Press
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Cathedral City Music
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Cathedral City brick
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Circuit
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Circuit correspondence
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Circuit Notes & Press
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:

    • Correspondence:

      • Description: Miscellaneous correspondence regarding "Chinook", "Night Rodeo", "Queen at the Cody Stampede"
        Dates: 2012-2014
        Container: Box 13
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: Emails - to and from Gregory Hinton regarding Out West at the Autry, Beyond Brokeback, Diversity Day, "8", Gay Rodeo Legacy, and iUniverse
        Dates: 2008-2015
        Container: Digital, Folder ahcdm_12604_001
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: VIP correspondence, Out West, Hinton Papers
        Dates:
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: Santa Monica rejection letters
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: Letters from Don Bachardy, Paul Wonner, Theophilus Brown, "S.M.C."
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: Query Letters, Promo, "S.M.C."
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: Query Letters, Cathedral City
        Dates:
        Container: Box 5,
        Location: / Correspondence:
      • Description: Letters of Response, Cathedral City
        Dates:
        Container: Box 5,
        Location: / Correspondence:
    • Description: Diplomas and college transcript - Gregory Hinton
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 12
      Location:
    • Description: Diversity Day, Las Vegas Library
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Diversity Day, Laramie/Missoula/Billings
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Diversity Day, KCAFT/7 Sacto
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Diversity Day Research, Play, etc.
      Dates:
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Driving Montana
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:

    • Family papers:

      • Description: John Scott Hinton 1950-2002, Brother of Gregory Hinton - photographs, letters, poems, drawings from my beloved brother
        Dates: 1950-2002
        Container: Box 12
        Location: / Family papers:
      • Description: Tom Ferris, life partner 1989 to present - photographs, manuscripts, cards
        Dates: 1989-2015
        Container: Box 12 and Digital, Folder ahcdm_12604_002
        Location: / Family papers:
      • Description: Hinton Family Papers - slides, photographs, stage play, death certificates, and video (DVD) "Hinton, Jones, Robinettes"
        Dates: 1985-1990
        Container: Box 12 and Digital, Folder ahcdm_12604_004
        Location: / Family papers:
      • Description: Cody Enterprise, "Wot a Week!" columns by G.C. (Kip) Hinton
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Family papers:
      • Description: Cody Enterprise, "Wot a Week!" columns by G.C. (Kip) Hinton - name plate, correspondence
        Dates: 2008-2009
        Container: Box 13
        Location: / Family papers:
    • Description: Front Range 2014
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Frontiers Magazine, Vol. 22, Issue 11
      Dates:
      Container: Box 6,
      Location:
    • Description: GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, CA, "Milk"
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Gay Rodeo Legacy Project, Autry National Center
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Hidden Histories, Eiteljorg Museum
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Hidden Histories, Out West at the Autry #2
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: It's My Party Press
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Los Angeles City Council, Autry Testimony
      Dates: 2011
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:

    • Manuscripts:

      • Description: "Night Rodeo" Novel 2nd draft
        Dates: 2009
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "The Book of Waitresses" screen play
        Dates: 2005
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Pena Ronda" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Tools for Loving" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Santa Monica Canyon" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "The Bird Artist" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "dizzy & jimmy" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "The Night Without Moon or Star" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Santa Monica Canyon" by Gregory Hinton
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Santa Monica Canyon" by Gregory Hinton Final
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "S.M.C." Papers
        Dates:
        Container: Box 4,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Gregory Hinton 1
        Dates:
        Container: Box 6,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "The Way Things Ought to Be" by Gregory Hinton 2
        Dates:
        Container: Box 6,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "The Way Things Ought to Be" Screenplay Adaptation
        Dates:
        Container: Box 6,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" scripts
        Dates:
        Container: Box 3,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" Script - Coverage/Concept Papers, Cast List/Budget
        Dates:
        Container: Box 5,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" mementos
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" Galley
        Dates: 2000
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" screenplay
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" by Gregory Hinton
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Cathedral City" by Gregory Hinton uncorrected proof
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Desperate Hearts" Galley
        Dates: 2002
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Desperate Hearts" by Gregory Hinton
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Desperate Hearts" by Gregory Hinton uncorrected proof
        Dates:
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Desperate Palms"
        Dates: 2001
        Container: Box 8,
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Waiting for a Chinook: A New Play About Old Newspapers)" by Gregory Hinton
        Dates: 2014
        Container: Box 12
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Waiting for a Chinook" C.M Russel Museum Chamber Performance - clippings, manuscript, programs
        Dates: 2014
        Container: Box 12
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Waiting for a Chinook" playbill, press from Snowy Range Summer Theatre Festival, and photographs
        Dates: 2014
        Container: Box 12
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Waiting for a Chinook" draft of play
        Dates: 2014
        Container: Box 12
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Community Journalism" play
        Dates: 2012-2014
        Container: Box 13
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Queen of the Cody Stampede" screen play
        Dates: 1986
        Container: Box 13
        Location: / Manuscripts:
      • Description: "Queen of the Cody Stampede" first draft novel
        Dates: 1993
        Container: Box 13
        Location: / Manuscripts:
    • Description: Maps
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: The Marked Reference Bible
      Dates:
      Container: Box 6,
      Location:
    • Description: The Holy Bible
      Dates:
      Container: Box 6,
      Location:
    • Description: News Clippings, Cathedral City & Desperate Hearts
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Oral History with Gregory Hinton - American Heritage Center, Out West in the Rockies Oral History Program
      Dates: 2021
      Container: Box Digital, Folder ahcdm_12604_005 and 007
      Location:

    • Out West:

      • Description: Out West with Buffalo Bill, Las Vegas Library
        Dates: 2014
        Container: Box 1,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Blake Little, Eiteljorg, Out West
        Dates:
        Container: Box 1,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: The Wild West, Out West at the Autry
        Dates: 2013
        Container: Box 1,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Two spirits, Out West at the Eiteljorg
        Dates: 2013
        Container: Box 1,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Two Spirits, Out West at the Las Vegas Library
        Dates: 2012
        Container: Box 1,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Beyond Brokeback, Out West at the Las Vegas Library
        Dates: 2012
        Container: Box 1,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Out west Concept Paper Timeline
        Dates:
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Out West at the Bozeman Library, Patricia Nell Warren
        Dates: 2011
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Out West with George Takei, Autry
        Dates: 2010
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Out West with Buffalo Bill, BBCW Fellowship
        Dates: 2011
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Brokeback Shirts, Autry Installation, Out West
        Dates: 2009
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Whatever Happened to Ennis Del Mar? #1, Out West at the Autry
        Dates: 2009
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Beyond Brokeback, Out West at the Autry #3
        Dates: 2010
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Patricia Nell Warren, Out West at the Las Vegas Library
        Dates: 2011
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Marsden Hartley, Out West at the Autry
        Dates: 2011
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: PHRANC & Co., Out West at the Autry
        Dates: 2011
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Saving the LGBT Story, Out West at the Autry
        Dates: 2011
        Container: Box 2,
        Location: / Out West:
      • Description: Out West programming - Beyond Brokeback, press releases, PowerPoint presentations, images, manuscript documents
        Dates: 2012-2014
        Container: Digital, Folder ahcdm_1260_003
        Location: / Out West:
    • Description: Out Write 25, West Hollywood, CA
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Paladin awards, Denver
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Paladin Awards, San Diego
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Paladin Awards, Out West at the Phoenix Library
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:

    • Photographs:

      • Description: Gregory Hinton - early childhood and secondary school
        Dates: 1960-1972
        Container: Box 12
        Location: / Photographs:
      • Description: Photograph of Blake Little (rodeo performer), signed, with personal note to Gregory Hinton
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: / Photographs:
    • Description: Posters: Reform School Girls, Waiting for a Chinook, Grease, Circuit, Reform School Girls, It's My Party
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 10
      Location:
    • Description: Posters: Marriage Equality, Liza Minelli Event, Gregory Hinton Book Signing, Out West at the Autry, Beyond Brokeback
      Dates: 2009-2010
      Container: Box 11
      Location:
    • Description: Pride in the Saddle, New Mexico History Museum
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Pride in the Saddle, Las Vegas Library
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Project articles - Gregory Hinton
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Project: It's My Party
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Project News
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Publicity
      Dates:
      Container: Box 5,
      Location:
    • Description: Reform School Girls
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Research files: "Night Rodeo", "Queen of the Cody Stampede", "Waiting for a Chinook"
      Dates: 1961-2009
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: Research for lecture on demise of print journalism
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: Same Sex Dynamics, Las Vegas Library
      Dates: 2013
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Same Sex Dynamics in 19th Century, Mormon Example
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, West Hollywood, CA
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Speeches: "Waiting for a Chinook: Searching For My Father - A Wyoming Country Editor" presented to the Montana Historical Society
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: Speeches: Montana Newspaper Association Convention - Big Sky 2015
      Dates: 2015
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: Staging LGBT History, One City/One Pride, West Hollywood
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Stories and poems - miscellaneous
      Dates: 1971-2015
      Container: Box 12
      Location:
    • Description: Tacoma Art Museum, Hide/Seek
      Dates: 2012
      Container: Box 1,
      Location:
    • Description: Tom Gregory Autograph Book
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Travel to Cody - travel receipts
      Dates: 2014
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: Two Spirits, One City/One Pride, West Hollywood, CA
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Ucross Foundation, Spring 2009
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: Universe, "S.M.C."
      Dates:
      Container: Box 4,
      Location:
    • Description: The Way Things Ought to Be - Press, Research, Eric Sawyer
      Dates:
      Container: Box 6,
      Location:
    • Description: The Way Things Ought to Be - Keen James Version
      Dates:
      Container: Box 6,
      Location:
    • Description: The Way Things Ought to Be - Boulder Settings
      Dates:
      Container: Box 6,
      Location:
    • Description: Website: South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Arts and Life, Gregory Hinton Advances LGBT Culture in American West (article and interview)
      Dates: November 7, 2017
      Container: Box Digital
      Location:
    • Description: Whisper Me Safe
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:
    • Description: Whitney anniversary and the BBHC (Buffalo Bill Historical Center) - speech, correspondence, photographs
      Dates: 2009
      Container: Box 13
      Location:
    • Description: World Gay Rodeo, Laughlin, NV
      Dates: 2010
      Container: Box 2,
      Location:
    • Description: Writers Guild of America registration paperwork
      Dates:
      Container: Box 7,
      Location:

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Subject Terms

  • Gay rodeos
  • Homosexuality -- West (U.S.)
  • LGBTQ+ people

Geographical Names

  • California -- 20th century
  • Colorado -- 20th century
  • Montana -- 20th century
  • Wyoming -- 20th century
  • Wyoming -- History -- 2000-

Processed by Molly Marcusse
2015

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