Member: gkoskovich

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GroupsAntiquarian Books, Gay Men, GLBT History, GLBT Libraries, Rare, Old or Offbeat

Favorite authorsMagnus Hirschfeld (Shared favorites)

About meI'm a San Francisco–based antiquarian dealer, editor, writer, historian and curator. As I a dealer, I specialize in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex materials, as well as radical and progressive social movements, minority cultures and French popular media (notably tabloid periodicals and trashy print culture of all sorts).

My work as a writer has been published in the United States and Europe since the early 1980s. My publications include "Une amitié source d'inspiration" in Hussein Bourgi (ed.), Jean Le Bitoux (1948–2010), passeur de mémoire (Lyon: Mémoire Active, 2010) and the booklet Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935). Un pionnier du mouvement homosexuel confronté au nazisme (Paris: Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle, 2010), which I edited and to which I contributed a timeline of key dates in Hirschfeld's life and career. A brief article I wrote about the French homophile journal Arcadie appears in the June 2010 issue of Tretter Letter, the newsletter of the friends of the Tretter LGBT studies collection at the University of Minnesota; to download the issue as an eight-page PDF, click here.

My 3,000-word entry on LGBT archives and libraries in the United States appears in the reference work LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008). My publications also include a French-language portfolio on the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco published in volume 6 of Triangul’ère (Paris: Editions Christophe Gendron, December 2006), and “The ‘Modest Collection’ of Bud Flounders: How 5,400 Gay Novels Came to Green Library,” published in the fall 2005 issue of Imprint, the journal of the Associates of the Stanford University Libraries.

With Roberto Malini and Steed Gamero, I am the coauthor of Un Diverso olocausto (Florence & Milan: Arcigay Firenze/Visions, 2007). Half the book consists of my essay giving an overview of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, translated to the Italian by Beatrix Rossi: "Dal'Eldorado al Terzo Reich: Vita et morte de una cultura omosessuale" (pp. 9-54). The book also includes reproductions of a number of historical documents and images from my collection.

In addition, I served as coeditor of a book published in November 2010, Diversity and Aging in the 21st Century: The Power of Inclusion (Washington, D.C.: AARP, 2010), and as coauthor of a book released in November 2009, Outing Age: Public Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Elders (Washington, D.C.: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2009).

I am a founding member of the GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco). I served as one of the three lead curators for "Our Vast Queer Past: Celebrating San Francisco's GLBT History," the debut exhibition currently on display at the society's GLBT History Museum. In addition, I am a member of the board of the Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle (Paris); and a life member of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History.

About my libraryMy collection focuses on nonfiction in all languages dealing with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex subjects published before 1970. I am primarily interested in books and pamphlets, but I also collect periodicals (particularly those in French) featuring substantial articles within my area and period of interest.

My full collection currently comprises nearly 1,500 items -- so my listings on LibraryThing.com are intended to provide only a snapshot of the range and depth of my holdings. In addition to my collection, I have a fairly extensive reference library of more recent books; about 200 of those are listed in the "Books" section of my LivingSocial profile.

Real nameGerard Koskovich

LocationSan Francisco

Account typepublic, free

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Member sinceDec 23, 2008