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Francis Winston Leyland

フランシス・ウィンストン・レイランド

Furanshisu Winsuton Reirando

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-08-29
Nationality
British, American
Languages
English
Religion
Buddhism
Residence History
San Francisco

Career

Occupations
author, editor, publisher
Active Years
1975-
Affiliations
Gay Sunshine Press, Leyland Publications
Influenced
Gay literature field
Nominations
Lambda Literary Award (1998, 2000, 2002)

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Country: United States

Awards

Stonewall Book Award
1980
Work: Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature
Organization: American Library Association
Result: winner
Lambda Literary Award
1992
Organization: Lambda Literary Foundation
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Gay Roots: Twenty Years of Gay Sunshine

1993 Gay literature anthology

An anthology of gay history, sex, politics, and culture

gay cultureLGBTQ+ literature

Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature

1980 Gay literature anthology

Anthology of Latin American gay literature

Latin American literaturegay themes

Translations by Author

  • English translations of Yukio Mishima's works
  • English translations of Nikolai Gogol

Style & Themes

Literary Style
pioneering gay publishingerotica publishing
Recurring Motifs
gay sexualityhomosexual literature

Legacy

Founder of the oldest LGBT publishing house in the US, Gay Sunshine Press; seminal figure in gay publishing

In Popular Culture

  • Influence on gay literary history

Quotes

  • its presentation of literary history hitherto kept in the closet by the academies
    Source: Gay Sunshine Journal (Allen Ginsberg) (1980)

Trivia

  • Formerly ordained Catholic priest
  • Praised by Allen Ginsberg
  • Published over 135 books