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Title: Gay Poetry Circle records
Dates: 1983-1987, undated
Collection Number: 2008-18
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .5 linear feet (one manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The Gay Poetry Circle of San Francisco appears to have been active in the early 1980s and included poets George Berimisa,
John Powers, Lloyd Stensrud, Charlie Casey, Wallace Parr, Joe Alderham, Jordan Lee, Don Chan Mark, Loren E. Rhoads, and possibly
others. The collection consists entirely of poems and short fiction, most of it photocopied. This collection also contains
poems by the poet, academic, and disability activist Christopher Hewitt (1946-2004).
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission
to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions
and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Gay Poetry Circle records. Collection Number: 2008-18. GLBT Historical Society
The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Carl Wiener in 2008.
Biography/Administrative History
The Gay Poetry Circle of San Francisco appears to have been active in the early 1980s and included poets George Berimisa,
John Powers, Lloyd Stensrud, Charlie Casey, Wallace Parr, Joe Alderham, Jordan Lee, Don Chan Mark, Loren E. Rhoads, and possibly
others. This collection also contains poems by the poet, academic, and disability activist Christopher Hewitt (1946-2004),
the bulk of whose papers are with the Hormel Center at San Francisco Public Library.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists entirely of poems and short fiction, most of it photocopied. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374;
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091
Gay men
Literature