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Allen Young (writer) was born on 30 June, 1941 in Liberty, New York, is an American journalist (born 1941). Discover Allen Young (writer)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, author, editor
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 30 June, 1941
Birthday 30 June
Birthplace Liberty, New York
Nationality United States

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1941

Allen Young (born June 30, 1941) is an American journalist, author, editor and publisher who is also a social, political and environmental activist.

Allen Young, born in Liberty, New York, on June 30, 1941, to Rae (Goldfarb) Young and Louis Young.

His parents, both secular Jews, spent their youth in New York City, then relocated to the hamlet of Glen Wild (estimated pop. 100) in Fallsburg in the foothills of the Catskills, and started a poultry farm, also providing accommodations for summer tourists in this region known as the Borscht Belt.

He was a red diaper baby.

1962

He graduated from Fallsburg Central High School and received his undergraduate degree in 1962 from Columbia College, Columbia University.

1963

Following an M.A. in 1963 from Stanford University in Hispanic American and Luso-Brazilian Studies, he earned an M.S. in 1964 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

1964

After receiving a Fulbright Award in 1964, Young spent three years in Brazil, Chile and other Latin American countries, contributing numerous articles to The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and other periodicals.

1967

Young returned to the United States in June 1967 and worked briefly for The Washington Post before resigning in the fall of that year to become a full-time anti-Vietnam War movement activist and staff member of the Liberation News Service.

Young, Marshall Bloom, Ray Mungo and others worked in the office at 3 Thomas Circle producing the news packets that were sent to the hundreds of underground newspapers bi-weekly or tri-weekly.

1968

A member of the Students for a Democratic Society he was part of the Columbia University protests of 1968 and was among more than 700 arrested.

When the Liberation News Service split in two in August 1968 Young became a recognized leader of the New York office.

1969

In February and March 1969 Young went to Cuba, where he was instrumental in the organization of the Venceremos Brigade.

Young became disillusioned with the Castro regime after observing the lack of civil liberties and other freedoms, and especially the government's anti-gay policies.

After the Mariel Boatlift he wrote Gays Under the Cuban Revolution, breaking with those New Leftists who continued to defend the Cuban Revolution.

After the Stonewall riots in New York City, Young became involved in the Gay Liberation Front.

1970

During the second half of 1970 he lived in the Seventeenth Street collective with Carl Miller, Jim Fouratt, and Giles Kotcher where he was involved in producing Gay flames.

Young wrote frequently for the gay press, including The Advocate, Come Out!, Fag Rag, and Gay Community News among others.

1972

His 1972 interview with Allen Ginsberg, which first appeared in Gay Sunshine is often reprinted and translated.

Young has edited four books with Karla Jay including the ground breaking anthology Out of the Closets.

1973

Young moved to rural Massachusetts in 1973 to an 'intentional community'.

Carrying a sign which read ''Royalston, Mass.

population 973'' he attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

1974

He joined the Montague Nuclear Power Plant protests shortly after Sam Lovejoy's toppling of the weather tower in 1974.

1979

He was a reporter and assistant editor for the Athol Daily News from 1979 to 1989, and Director of Community Relations for the Athol, Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, 1989 to 1999.

2004

He has served on the board of directors of the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, and in 2004 received the Writing and Society Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst English Department "honoring a distinguished career of commitment to the work of writing in the world."

2009

Since 2009, he has been writing a weekly column, entitled Inside/Outside, for the Athol Daily News.