Eric Rofes
Eric Rofes | |
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Born | Commack, New York, US | August 31, 1954
Died | June 26, 2006 | (aged 51)
Education | Harvard University University of California, Berkeley |
Occupation(s) | Activist University professor |
Eric Rofes (August 31, 1954 – June 26, 2006) was a
Early life and education
Eric Rofes was born on August 31, 1954 to a Jewish family, and grew up in Commack, New York. He graduated from Harvard University and went on to receive a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, and a doctorate in social and cultural studies in 1998.[1]
Career
He was appointed to the White House Conference on the Family in 1980. He became director of the
In 1989, he became executive director of the Shanti Project, a nonprofit AIDS service organization in San Francisco. He resigned in 1993, following an audit that questioned how the group had spent federal funds.
In 1998, while doing his PhD at
He was a professor of Education at
One of the last projects he worked on was the creation, with Chris Bartlett, of a series of "Gay Men's Health Leadership Academies" to combat what he saw as a "pathology-focused understanding of gay men" in safe-sex education.[4] These workshops have persisted as a continuation of his legacy.
Death
He was living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, working on his 13th book when he died of a heart attack.[5]
Legacy
In June 2019, Rofes was one of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the
Bibliography
- The Kids' Book of Divorce (1983)
- I Thought People Like That Killed Themselves: Lesbians, Gay Men and Suicide (1983)
- The Kids' Book About Parents (1983)
- Socrates, Plato, & Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher (1985)
- Gay Life (1986)
- "Living as All of Who I Am: Being Jewish in the Lesbian/Gay Community", in Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish ed. Balka & Rose (1989)
- Living with AIDS on Long Island (1989)
- Reviving the Tribe: Regenerating Gay Men's Sexuality and Culture in the Ongoing Epidemic (1996)
- The Kids' Book About Death and Dying (1997)
- Opposite Sex (1998)
- Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures (1998)
- Youth and Sexualities (2004)
- The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools (2004)
- A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality & Schooling (2005)
- Thriving (with an introduction by Chris Bartlett & Tony Valenzuela) (Posthumous) (PDF of Thriving)
References
- ^ "Eric RofesGay Activist, Author". The Washington Post. July 8, 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
- ^ Martin, Douglas (June 29, 2006). "Eric Rofes, Commentator on Gay Issues, Dies at 51". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
- ^ Journal of Homosexuality, volume 53, issue 3, 'Gay Activism and Scholarship from the Front Lines: Contributions of Eric Rofes – A Memoriam' by Donald C. Barrett
- ^ "Gay Bodies, Gay Selves: Understanding the Gay Men’s Health Movement" Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine White Crane #66
- ^ Buchanan, Wyatt (June 28, 2006). "Eric Rofes -- scholar, educator, gay men's health activist". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Glasses-Baker, Becca (June 27, 2019). "National LGBTQ Wall of Honor unveiled at Stonewall Inn". www.metro.us. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
- ^ Rawles, Timothy (2019-06-19). "National LGBTQ Wall of Honor to be unveiled at historic Stonewall Inn". San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. Archived from the original on 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
- ^ "Groups seek names for Stonewall 50 honor wall". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Stonewall 50". San Francisco Bay Times. 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-05-25.