Warren Allen Smith (born 27 October 1921) is an American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist. In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway, New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90). In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots.
Leavey Award, by Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge 1985 - was handed $7,500 by architect Charles Luckman as one of fifteen recipients ot the annual Leavey Awards — received for a syllabus to teach Adam Smith clubs and classes in high schools
2000 Who's Who in Hell (NY: Barricade Books, 2000) - a handbook and international directory for humanists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, and non-theists; received a front-page review/interview in The New York Observer and a CNN interview by Jeanne Moos.
2002 Celebrities in Hell (NY: Barricade Books, 2002) - a listing of contemporary non-revelationists from Woody Allen and Marlon Brando to Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Christopher Reeve, and Frank Zappa
2005 Gossip from Across the Pond - ten years of Smith's British column about gay non-believers (see Gay & Lesbian Humanist; for the more recent online edition, see Gay & Lesbian Humanist online)
2005 Cruising the Deuce - a serious study of the 1940s to 1980s subculture on New York City's 42nd Street; foreword by Dr. Vern L. Bullough, fellow and former President, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex; copy was requested by the Kinsey Institute; John Waters asked to use the book as a prop in a 2005 movie.
Columns
1994-1998 "Humanist Potpourri". Free Inquiry; "Paul Cadmus: Artist-Humanist," August 1996
1970s "Manhattan Scene," in St. Thomas Daily News' and twenty other West Indian newspapers