Will Roscoe

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Will Roscoe (born February 8, 1955 in Montana ) is an American historian and LGBT activist.

Life

Roscoe grew up in Missoula , Montana. After finishing school in Montana, he studied history at the University of Montana , where he founded the first LGBT organization Lambda Alliance in Montana in 1975 . Then he went to California. After completing his degree, Roscoe taught Anthropology, Native American Studies and American History at UC / Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, UC / Berkeley, the California Institute of Integral Studies and Dominican College.

Roscoe worked as an LGBT activist in the 1980s and 1990s. He wrote several books as an author.

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • Margaret Mead Award
  • 1992: Lambda Literary Award for The Zuni Man-Woman
  • 2003: Monette-Horowitz Achievement Award
  • 2005: Lambda Literary Award for Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love

Works (selection)

  • 2004: Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love , San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press
  • 1998: Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America , Palgrave / St. Martin's Press
  • 1995: Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book , Boston: Beacon Press
  • 1991: The Zuni Man-Woman , Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
  • Islamic Homosexualities (in collaboration with Stephen O. Murray )
  • Boy-Wives and Female Husbands (collaborative with Stephen O. Murray)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Will Roscoe: Who is
personal data
SURNAME Roscoe, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Montana