Dodi Horvat papers
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Title: Dodi Horvat papers
Dates: circa 1970s-1993
Collection Number: 1994-08
Creator/Collector:
Horvat, Dodi
Extent: 0.4 linear feet (1 manuscript box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Dodi Horvat was a scientist and science fiction writer. This collection consists of Horvat’s creative notes, a small amount
of research material, and interviews with transgender men conducted by Thyme Siegel.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright to material created by Dodi Horvat and Thyme Siegel has 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.
[Identification of item]. Dodi Horvat papers. Collection Number: 1994-08. GLBT Historical Society
The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society in 1997 by Thyme Siegel.
Biography/Administrative History
Dodi Horvat (1940-1989) was a microbiologist and mycologist who also wrote science fiction. Earlier archivists’ unattributed
notes give contradictory accounts of Horvat’s name and identity, listing their formal name as either “Dodi-Dolores” or “Dorothy,”
and describing them variously as a lesbian and a transgender man. Horvat lived in San Francisco from 1967 to 1989 and was
active in the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans. They played in the Options for Women Over 40 Theatre Group and helped facilitate the
Lesbians Over 40 Rap Group of Options.
Scope and Content of Collection
The majority of this collection consists of Horvat’s unpublished fiction and elaborate notes on characters and plots, as well
as extensive writings about the culture, politics, geography, religion and populations of their constructed world, which includes
an original system of gender and sexuality. Additional materials include one notebook on Bay Area fauna and mushrooms, as
well as a series of photographs of Horvat with friends from the 1970s and 1980s (with several figures identified in handwritten
notes by Siegel). A tape of three interviews with transmasculine people by Siegel, later published in the October 1993 issue
of Off Our Backs, is also included. Siegel’s taped interview with Jamison Green was originally included, but has been moved
to the oral history collection, and several zines were moved to the periodicals collection. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000130; http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091
Transgender people
Lesbians
Literature