Something I find most curious about this article: Mr. Gladfelder published his materials on this reference to a lost book in May 2006. He was lecturing on it in 2005.
Hm, isn't he going to re-publish the text? Some PR would be just fine for this kind of occasion... It would be interesting to actually read the piece.
Generally, who knows how many texts are lost for us? The evil of religiously motivated addiction to eradicate anything going "against the [heterosexual] nature" from libraries and musea was/is wide spread. Who guarantees the relatively liberal handling of the issue in the West will last forever?
In this context, just what will happen to the archives, should straight people of the NYPL decide to get rid of the "homo rubbish"? There needs not necessarily a "bad will" to be involved -- they simply might decide that the useless old stuff unnecessarily takes away the spare space which could be better used for family books and activities books.
Gay archives are most safe in gay hands -- unfortunately, due to the lack of ressources, gay archives not always provide the best service.