Stonewall Book Award
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1980) Winner
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
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | — | — | — | — | United States |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Stonewall Book Award | Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature | — | American Library Association | winner |
| 1992 | Lambda Literary Award | — | — | Lambda Literary Foundation | winner |
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 anthologyAn anthology of gay history, sex, politics, and culture
gay cultureLGBTQ+ literature
Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay Literature
1980 Gay literature anthologyAnthology 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