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Will Roscoe is an American activist and author who has been involved in the LGBT rights movement since the 1970s. He is best known for his work on the history of same-sex relationships in Native American cultures. Roscoe was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in the nearby town of Bellevue. He attended the University of Washington, where he earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1977. He then went on to earn a master's degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. Roscoe has been involved in the LGBT rights movement since the 1970s. He was a founding member of the Gay Academic Union, and was a member of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project. He has also been involved in the fight for LGBT rights in Native American communities, and has written extensively on the history of same-sex relationships in Native American cultures. Roscoe is the author of several books, including The Zuni Man-Woman (1991), Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America (1998), and Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book (1995). He has also written numerous articles and essays on LGBT rights and Native American history. Roscoe is currently a professor of anthropology at San Francisco State University. He is also a board member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

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Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 8 February 1955
Birthday 8 February
Birthplace Seattle, Washington, United States
Nationality United States

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2005

His book Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love received a Lambda Literary Award in 2005.

2003

In 2003, he received a Monette-Horwitz Achievement Award for research and scholarship combating homophobia.

1978

After relocating to San Francisco in 1978, he organized a successful campaign to obtain United Way membership for the Pacific Center for Human Growth in Berkeley, the first LGBT social service agency in the nation to receive that status. He subsequently worked with Harvey Milk in the "No on 6" campaign against the Briggs Initiative. After attending the first Radical Faerie gathering in Arizona in 1979, he became colleagues with Harry Hay, co-founding Nomenus, which operates a LGBT retreat center in southern Oregon. In 1995 he edited and published a selection of writings by Hay, who was also a foundational figure of the gay men's liberation movement. Roscoe also worked closely with the group Gay American Indians (GAI) on issues around the meaning of the term "berdache".

1975

Roscoe helped found the Lambda Alliance at the University of Montana, that state's first LGBT organization in 1975. He served as an intern at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 1976, and the following year he formed the Oregon Gay Alliance, a statewide coalition of LGBT groups.

1955

Will Roscoe (February 8, 1955) is an American activist, scholar, and author based in San Francisco, California.

Will Roscoe was born on February 8, 1955. He grew up in [[Missoula, Montana}].