** Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center/SF Library - Upcoming December Activities **
Please join us at the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center San Francisco
Public Library for these exciting events and exhibits!
Thanks for helping spread the word and we hope to see you.
PROGRAMS -
* Celebrating the Life and Work of Steve Abbott
1 December, Sunday, 2:00
Main Library, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room The 10th
anniversary of Steve Abbottıs death is honored in commemoration of World
AIDS Day. His daughter Alysia is joined by friends Kevin Killian, Dodie
Bellamy, Bob Gluck and others in this celebration of Abbottıs poetry and prose.
* Felice Picano leads a personal tour of "Early Gay Presses of New York"
14 December, Saturday, 3:00
Hormel Center, 3rd floor.
Renowned writer of fiction, poetry, memoir, and plays, and a member of the
legendary Violet Quill Club, Felice Picano will be in the Hormel Center to
speak about his experiences in gay publishing. This event is in conjunction
with the exhibit "Early Gay Presses in New York," curated by Picano from
his personal collection of books, drawings, photographs, correspondence,
and other rare materials documenting this seminal period of gay publishing.
In 1977 Picano founded SeaHorse Press, the premier gay publishing house in
New York City, and in 1981 co-founded the Gay Presses of New York of which
he was editor-in-chief for twelve years. Picano also helped launch the
Publishing Triangle Association, the lesbian and gay publisher organization
based in New York.
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EXHBITIONS -
on view through January 9, 2003
James C. Hormel Center, Third Floor, Main Library:
* Gay Presses of New York (1977-1995) - Documenting the beginnings of
contemporary gay publishing, this exhibit includes books, drawings,
photographs, correspondence and other rare materials from the private
collection of Felice Picano, a renowned award-winning writer of fiction,
non-fiction, poetry, plays and literary memoirs. Picano was a member of the
legendary Violet Quill Club founded in 1977 to promote gay writing.
* Celebrating the Life and Work Steve Abbott, 1943-1992
Selected from the collections of the Hormel Center, an exhibit of artwork,
writing, and photographs by Steve Abbott, the San Francisco-based
poet/writer who died of AIDS in 1992.
Jim Van Buskirk,Program Manager
James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-4989
phone: (415) 557-4566
fax: (415) 437-4831
e-mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
<http://www.sfpl.org>
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