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Arch Brown
(June 2, 1936 - September 3, 2012) USA

Arch Brown

Filmmaker, photographer, playwright

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Born Arnold Krueger in Chicago on June 2, 1936, Arch attended Northwestern University before moving to New York City in the late 1950s. There, he met his life partner, Bruce Brown, whose last name he used professionally.

Following Bruce Brown’s death in 1993, Arch Brown established the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, which gives grants to LGBT playwrights and to theater groups mounting LGBT-themed plays and which has sponsored periodic literary competitions awarding prizes to playwrights and fiction writers whose works are “based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art.”

Brown gained famed during the 1970s and early 1980s as the director of a series of feature-length gay pornographic films. During this period, he also worked as photographer, taking erotic photographs that appeared in gay slicks such as Mandate and Honcho.

In the late 1970s, Brown began writing plays. His first play, News Boy , was his most successful, receiving an Off Broadway production in 1979; centering on the coming-out of the gay son of a conservative politician, the play was later produced by numerous community theater groups around the country. A 1998 comedy by Brown, FREEZE! , received the Eric Bentley Playwriting Prize that year and has been produced several times. During the last decade of his life, Brown founded and ran the Thorny Theater, in Palm Springs, which mounted several gay-themed plays each season; the theater closed in 2010.

Arch Brown died of natural causes at his home in Palm Springs, California. He was 76 years old. His remains will be interred at a cemetery in Charlotte, Michigan, in a grave next to that of Bruce Brown.

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