Jim Van Buskirk

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2007

Love, Castro Street: Reflections of San Francisco, edited by Katherine V. Forrest and

Recognized as perhaps the world's most queer destination, San Francisco has a long, storied history of embracing--and influencing--gay and lesbian culture. Now, Michael Nava, Elana Dykewomon, Helen Zia, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Jim Tushinski, Fenton Johnson, Michelle Tea, K.M. Soehnlein, and many other Bay Area queer writers offer up essays describing what they love about San Francisco,...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.2006

Identity Envy - Wanting to Be Who We're Not: Creative Non-Fiction by Queer Writers, edited by Jim Tushinski and

Why would a lesbian raised in a Jewish home have a sudden desire to be a tough-talking Catholic girl? And why would a gay man travel to Ireland in a desperate attempt to escape his "hillbilly" roots? Identity Envy-Wanting to Be Who We're Not explores the connections gay men and lesbians have to religions, races, ethnicities, classes, families of origin, and genders not...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2006

Celluloid San Francisco: The Film Lover's Guide to Bay Area Movie Locations by Will Shank and

Exploring a city famous for its role in film settings and television backdrops, this book is a comprehensive guide to thousands of movie and television locations in the San Francisco Bay area. From the cement steps in Alta Plaza Park as featured in Barbra Streisand's What's Up, Doc? to the actual nightclub of Frank Sinatra's character in Pal Joey and the haunts of Don Johnson's...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.1996

Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area by Susan Stryker and

A fabulous montage of word and image, this is the first book ever to chronicle the origin and evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Capturing the international center of the gay experience as never before, and published to coincide with the opening of the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library...

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About Jim

Jim Van Buskirk's essays have been featured in various books, newspapers, magazines, radio broadcasts, and websites. Jim co-authored (with Susan Stryker) Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle Books, 1996), and (...

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Causes Jim Van Buskirk Supports

Friends of the Urban Forest, Los Angeles Conservancy, No on 8, Authors Guild, National Trust for Historic Preservation, American Association of Museums

Jim’s Favorite Books

The Hours (Michael Cunningham), Alias Olympia (Eunice Lipton), Too Close to the Falls (Catherine Gildiner), The Keeper of Memory (Irene Reti), Ghosts of Berlin...