Mark Thompson Collection (CLGS), 1987-2008

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Creators:: Thompson, Mark (1952-2016) The Advocate
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Extent:: 3.5 linear feet (3 record boxes, 1 5" box, 1 2" flat box
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Preferred citation:: Mark Thompson Collection (CLGS) . Graduate Theological Union

Scope and content:: The collection includes photographs and working files on Thompson’s book Gay Soul; drafts, reviews, publicity and interviews on Gay Spirit: exhibition materials for several photography shows; and an oral history from 1994. Additional photographs from the Fellow Travelers exhibition are stored at CLGS.
Biographical / historical:: Mark Thompson (1952-August 9, 2016) was born and raised on the Monterrey Peninsula. He attended San Francisco State, where he was a founding member of the Bay Area-wide Gay Students Coalition. He joined The Advocate as writer-editor in the mid-1970s and remained there for several decades. His books on gay culture included the trilogy Gay Spirit, Gay Soul, and Gay Body as well as the books The Fire in the Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries; Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice; and Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. He died a year after his companion and husband, Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest and one of the most influential gay figures in religion, passed away.
Acquisition information:: “The Mark Thompson Collection” belongs to the larger archival collection of The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion, a member school of The Graduate Theological Union. Materials received in November 2011. The GTU Archives is the designated repository.

Subjects:: Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Gay men -- United States -- Psychology
Gay men -- Religious life -- United States
Spiritual life -- United States
Gay Liberation Movement — United States — History
Journalist
Photographer
Names:: The Advocate
Thompson, Mark (1952-2016)
Boyd, Malcolm (1923-2015)
Places:: Los Angeles, Calif
San Francisco, Calif

Access and use

Restrictions:: Collection is open to the public.
Terms of access:: Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union 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 reader.

Preferred citation:: Mark Thompson Collection (CLGS) . Graduate Theological Union

Location of this collection:: Graduate Theological Union

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