"Some of My Best Friends: poetry by Tede Matthews," [1981] GLC 100
Finding aid prepared by Tim Wilson
James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library
2015
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San Francisco, CA, 94102
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Title: Some of my Best Friends: poetry by Tede Matthews,
Date: [1981]
Collection Identifier: GLC 100
Creator:
Matthews, Tede, 1951-1993
Physical Description:
1.0 folder
Contributing Institution:
James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
(415) 557-4400
info@sfpl.org
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
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Inscribed to Mark Weisman, 1981.
[Identification of item], "Some of My Best Friends: poetry by Tede Matthews" (GLC 100), Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco
Public Library.
Donated by Mark Weisman, 2015.
Tede Matthews (1951–1993) was a poet and activist. He was a collective member of Modern Times bookstore and organized many
literary events around San Francisco. He is perhaps best known for his appearance in the 1977 documentary
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives. His interests included AIDS activism, work in solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles in Central and South America, and
projects in support of the people's movement in Chile in the 1970s and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Tede died
of AIDS in 1993.
Poems: Mercy & the Hot Rod (12/72); Cold on a Midnite Lamppost (1/74); Savannah; The Drought Affects the Family Trees (74);
Norma Rae (3/5/79); Sexual Terror(3/24/79); Pompeii, for Paul; Somewhere Is Rijeka (11/79); Some People (5/1/80); On the Death
of Somoza (10/80); Empty Sugar Bowl Blues (12/80); Survival Song (1/3/81); Queer Bashing (1/4/81); Green (1/19/81); The Sin
of Admission (1/15/81); The Last Plunge; Cursed.
Poems appear in original order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay poets