Sandia Bear is a fifty-five-year-old Jewish lesbian crone. Her novel The Woman Who Fell Through the Sky begins in Santa Fe, which she still calls home, though she lives in California.
David Bell owns and operates a real estate investment company in San Francisco. He is on the board of the Human Rights Campaign Fund and loves to travel.
Andrea Bernstein is a New York-based reporter who writes frequently on politics and lesbian and gay issues.
Selisse Berry, M.Div., is a graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary and is the national coordinator of CLOUT, an organization of out lesbians in the churches.
Joan E. Biren (JEB) has for twenty-four years been proud of her efforts to make our community visible through photographing, publishing, and producing videos that chronicle the lives of lesbian and gay people.
Wayne Blackenship is the intervention coordinator at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
Megan Boler, a native San Franciscan, poet, and novelist, holds a doctorate in the history of consciousness and currently teaches at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Michael Bronski is the author of Culture Clash: The Making of A Gay Sensibility (1984), as well as the forthcoming Gay and Lesbian Culture. He has written extensively on sexuality, culture, and politics and has been involved in the gay liberation movement for more than twenty-six years.
Richard D. Burns is the executive director of the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center of New York City.
Stephen Capsuto lectures and writes about the history of sexual minority images in American broadcast media. Since 1991, he has served as director of the Lesbian and Gay Library/Archives of Philadelphia (a project of Penguin Place Community Center).
Quang Dang is involved in queer youth advocacy, AIDS activism, and immigrant rights, and he dreams of one day writing a cookbook of tasty eggplant dishes. He got his B.A from Brown University and is testing his patience at the University of California’s (Berkeley) law school.
Carrie Dearborn first started writing for the New England Women’s Yellow Pages in 1976 and has a book coming out titled the Cobblestone Sidewalk Conspiracy.
Beth Dingman is one of the founding members of New Victoria Press. She is currently writing a book on the Women and Print Movement (1970–1990).
Jeffrey Escoffier is the author of many articles on gay and lesbian politics, economics, and scholarship. He is the author of the Chelsea House biography of John Maynard Keynes.
Alina Ever is a community builder, artist, ritualist, drummer, singer, group leader, activist, and liberation educator with a passion for fusing multicultural art/ritual and politics to heal and transform the world.
Jennifer Finlay is a graduate of Bowling Green State University. She worked with Randy Shilts on his final book, Conduct Unbecoming. She also worked with Eric Marcus on the upcoming Why Suicide?
Chuck Forester is the former co-chair of the Human Rights Campaign Fund.
Deeg Gold has been a lesbian liberation activist for twenty-four years and is currently a member of Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention (LAGAI) in San Francisco. LAGAI publishes Ultra Violet, a newsletter for lesbian/gay liberationists.
Michael Greer is a writer and activist living in San Francisco. He is an editor of CrossRoads, a monthly magazine of progressive debate and opinion, and is currently working on a book about children of gay and lesbian parents.
David Harrison is a San Francisco-based playwright/performer. His most recent work, FTM, is a solo performance piece exploring the classic issues of death, transformation, and enlightenment—with a twist. It’s based in his own transsexual journey form female to male, as well as his personal duel with breast cancer.
Karen Hester of Scarlet Letter Management is an activist, producer, publicist, and booking argent.
Dorothy Holland, former teacher and Peace Corps Volunteer, is now a book buyer for feminist bookstores and a computer consultant for women. She also reviews books and new media for several publications.
Philip Horvitz is a performer, director, and writer who lives and works in San Francisco.
Andy Humm has been the host of GayUSA on the Gay Cable Network since 1985 and of WNET-TV’s Informed Sources since 1992.
Sue Hyde is a sodomite and political activist. She has worked for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force since 1986.
Eric Jansen is a freelance radio and print journalist living in San Francisco.
Stephen Kent Jusick is a film archivist and freelance curator who has been reading comics since 1977.
Jim Kepner is a veteran gay activist, journalist, teacher, and historian.
John R. Killacky is a curator, writer, videographer, and educator living in Minneapolis.
Dave Kinnick chronicles the small world of pornography and its denizens for magazines such as The Advocate, Advocate, Classifieds, Advocate MEN, and Fresh MEN and is the editor of Adam’s Gay Video Annual Directory. Dave’s first independently published book was Sorry I Asked: Intimate Interviews with Gay Porn’s Rank and File (Badboy Press, 1993).
Billy Kolber is the co-founder and editor of OUT & ABOUT the award-winning gay/lesbian travel magazine.
David Lamble is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, writer, and host of the gay men’s radio show “Fmit Punch.” He is currently working on a book about gay writers called Dead Radio Shows.
Per Larson, a columnist for The Advocate, Victory, and In the life, is an advisor to gay men and lesbians on finance and workplace issues. Based in New York, Per is on the board of the Community lesbian and Gay Rights Institute and the Equal Opportunity Institute.
Mark Leger is a poet, gardener, and faggot witch living in Brooklyn with his lover and three cats. He is an editor, along with the luscious Aleksandra and fabulous others, of Faerie. Gram, the northeast Radical Faerie newsletter. Mark is currently working on a computer multimedia documentary of Anne Thompson, a longtime Brooklyn street activist.
Doug Litwin has been a member of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Freedom Band since 1985, and is currently president of the Lesbian and Gay Bands of America. In his other real life, he is a marketing executive.
Matthew Lore is a writer and book packager. He worked for five years at HarperSanFrancisco, the country’s largest nondenominational publisher of books on religion and spirituality. He is writing the volume on spirituality for a new series, Issues in Gay and lesbian life, which will be published by Chelsea House in 1995.
Daniel Mangin started one of the nation’s first courses in lesbian and gay film at City College of San Francisco. He has written about film for the Journal of Film and Video, Culture Concrete, The Advocate, and other publications and has lectured internationally on lesbian and gay film topics.
Jeff Mattson lives and writes computer documentation in Sommerville, Massachusetts.
Mev Miller is proud to say she’s always been a lesbian and has NEVER been with a man, even on a date! She is currently editing an anthology of writings by fat dykes.
Arwyn Moore is a San Francisco-based writer and editor-in-chief of insideOUT, a magazine for queer youth. Arwyn’s ultimate life goal is to train elephants for the Romanian Lesbian.Circus.
Michael Nava is a lawyer and author.
Elizabeth Nonas is the author of three novels published by Naiad Press, as well as co-author with Simon LeVay of City of Friend (MIT Press). She teaches fiction writing at UCLA Extension and at the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Education in West Hollywood.
Naphtali Often is a longtime Community activist in the Lesbian/gay, Jewish, and anti-smoking movements.
Irene Ogus is the owner of a travel magazine and directory publishing company. A native of London, England, she has lived in San Francisco for the past twenty-six delicious years.
John Paul is the owner of Spiral Studios, a graphic design firm. and Pink Triangle, Adventures, a travel business for gay men and lesbians. John lives in the San Francisco Bay .Area with his partner, Chip Carman. Further information on men’s music can be found at John’s Internet home page, http://www.spiral.com/.
Rachel Pepper envisions, a life spent on Mykonos, sipping beer, gazing out at the sea, and churning out mystery novels for huge sums of money and adoring fans everywhere.
Elizabeth Pincus is the film critic for Harper’s Bazaar and film editor of the LA Weekly. She is also author of the Nell Fury private eye series.
Wendell Ricketts was born on Wake Island and raised in O’ahu, Hawai’i, where he lived until moving to San Francisco in 1981. Formerly the manuscript editor of the Journal of Homosexuality, he writes frequently about politics, the performing art lesbian and gay family and legal issue, and responeses to AIDS in the arts and the media.
Thomas P. Rielly is co-founder and co-chair of Digital Queers, a civil rights organizing group based in San Francisco.
Don Romesburg, the assistant editor of Out in All Directions, is a San Francisco-based writer and editor. His ambitions are to love well, always be a fabulous deviant in this ridiculous society, and make enough money to afford health insurance.
Cynthia Scott is a Minneapolis-based journalist. She has worked in community and neighborhood newspapers for ten years.
Anthony Slide is the author and editor of more than fifty books on the history of popular entertainment, including Great Pretenders: A History of Female and Male Impersonation in the Performing Arts (1986) and Gay and Lesbian Characters and Themes in Mystery Novels (1993).
Jakki Spicer is currently a graduate student in the comparative studies in discourse and society program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she is pursuing the question: Queer theory, feminist theory, and postmodern/poststructuralist theory—friends, enemies, or both? An expatriate of the San Francisco Bay Area, Jakki hopes to someday be as tall as Geena Davis.
Linda Stamps is a journalist, attorney, and former professional football player. She lives in Monterey, California, with her partner, Halle, and their cat, Misha. The ex-linebacker is currently working on a book about women’s football.
Victoria Starr has worked in the music industry for many years. She currently produces and hosts a regular weekly radio program, “The Motherlode,” for WBAI, 99.5 fm in New York City. The former music editor, then features editor, of Outweek, from 1988 to 1990, she also wrote All You Get Is Me, a biography of k.d. lang, in 1994.
Nancy E. Stoller is a professor of community studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a co-editor of Women Resisting AIDS: Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (1994).
Mark Thompson is a journalist and photographer and was a senior editor of The Advocate for twenty years. He is the author/editor of several books, including Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning; Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice; and Gay Souls: Finding the Heart of Gay Spirit in Nature.
Steve Vezeris currently resides in San Francisco, where he has lived for the last five years. He is still recovering from his first thirty-five years of living on the East Coast.
Greg Walker, who lives in Palo Alto, California, is active in the San Francisco Gay Men’s Choral Foundation and is a closet social worker.
Karen Wickre is co-founder and co-chair of Digital Queers, a civil rights organizing group based in San Francisco.
Jim Wilke is a historian studying the American West and gay and lesbian issues.
John Wrathall is the author of the forthcoming book Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: The YMCA and Male Homoeroticism in America, 1860–1930 (University of Chicago Press).