Founder
President of BHPI
Les K. Wright
Wiki BHP Reboot Page
Author, Literary Scholar, Photographer, Gay Historian, Gay Activist
Contact: [[1]]
Phone: (347) 907-5308
Time Zone: NY/Eastern Standard/Daylight Savings Time
Committee involvement:
Advisor the committee. History/Content provider. Liaison to academic archives.
Experience:
“Sociology of the Urban Gay Bear”, author, cover article of Drummer, first published article about gay gears
“Theoretical Bears,” author, in The Bear Book (1997), first theoretical stereography of gay bears
The Bear Book (1997), editor
The Bear Book II (2000), editor.
Bear History Project, founder (1994), permanently archived in the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University
San Francisco Gay and Lesbian History Project, member
GLBT Historical Society San Francisco, founding member
Background:
BA, University at Albany (Comparative Literature: German and Russian)
MA, University of Tübingen, Germany (American Studies)
MA, UC Berkeley (Comparative Literature: German, Russian, English)
PhD, UC Berkeley (Comparative Literature: German, Russian, English, Dutch and French)
Grassroots historian, influenced by Allan Bérubé