Will Roscoe

Will Roscoe (b. 1964) is a scholar, activist, and author based on San Francisco, CA. In 1975, helped found Lambda in Missoula, Montana, that state's first glbt organization. In 1976, he served an intern at the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, and the following year he formed the Oregon Gay Alliance, a statewide coaliation of lgbt groups. After relocating to San Francisco in 1978, he organized a successful campaign to obtain United Way membership for the Pacific Center for Human Growth (Berkeley), the first glbt social service agency in the nation to recieve that status. He subsequently work with Harvey Milk in the No on 6 campaign the so-called Briggs Initiative). After attending the first radical fairy gathering in Arizona in 1979, he became colleagues with Harry Hay, co-founding Nomenus, which operates a glbt retreat center in southern Oregon. In 1995 he edited and publication a selection of writings by Hay, the "father" of the gay liberation movement.

Roscoe's first book, The Zuni Man-Woman, received the Maragaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, as well as a Lambda Literary Award for gay men's nonfiction. In 2003, he received a Monette-Horowitz Achievement Award for research and scholarship combatting homophobia. His book, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love, received a Lambda Literary Award in 2005.

Will Roscoe (b. 1964) is a scholar, activist, and author based on San Francisco, CA. In 1975, helped found Lambda in Missoula, Montana, that state's first glbt organization. In 1976, he served an intern at the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, and the following year he formed the Oregon Gay Alliance, a statewide coaliation of lgbt groups. After relocating to San Francisco in 1978, he organized a successful campaign to obtain United Way membership for the Pacific Center for Human Growth (Berkeley), the first glbt social service agency in the nation to recieve that status. He subsequently worked with Harvey Milk in the No on 6 campaign the so-called Briggs Initiative). After attending the first radical fairy gathering in Arizona in 1979, he became colleagues with Harry Hay, co-founding Nomenus, which operates a glbt retreat center in southern Oregon. In 1995 he edited and publication a selection of writings by Hay, the "father" of the gay liberation movement.

Roscoe's first book, The Zuni Man-Woman, received the Maragaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, as well as a Lambda Literary Award for gay men's nonfiction. In 2003, he received a Monette-Horowitz Achievement Award for research and scholarship combatting homophobia. His book, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love, received a Lambda Literary Award in 2005.

Selected Publications

BOOKS Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love. San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 1998. Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. The Zuni Man-Woman. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.

EDITED VOLUMES Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities, edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe. St. Martin's Press, 1998. Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature, edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe. New York: New York University Press, 1997. Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder, by Harry Hay. Boston: Beacon: 1996. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.