BLP sources date December 2009 This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers , who live in, or write about, the San Francisco Bay Area . Dynamic list Do not add names of authors without Wikipedia articles, or who are not likely to have articles written about them. For authors without articles, you MUST add a sourced reference indicating notability, or the name will be removed. Please note that this list is alphabetized. by last name. Kim Addonizio Isabelle Allende Charlie Jane Anders Tamim Ansary Peter S. Beagle John Bear Dodie Bellamy Matt Bernstein Sycamore Terry Bisson Vance Bourjaily Kate Braverman Patrick Califia Michael Chabon Avram Davidson Alonzo Delano N. A. Diaman Diane di Prima Howard Dully Dossie Easton David Eggers Stephen Elliott author Stephen Elliott Lawrence Ferlinghetti Timothy Ferris Karen Joy Fowler Eric Garris Herbert Gold Andrew Goldfarb Lisa Goldstein Daphne Gottlieb Judy Grahn Daniel Handler Douglas Hergert ref http bernalhillpress.com Douglas Hergert.html ref Dorothy J. Heydt Jane Hirshfield Adam Hochschild Khaled Hosseini Daedalus Howell Richard Kadrey Alan Kaufman Jack Kerouac Derek Kirk Kim Laurie R. King Maxine Hong Kingston Ellen Klages Jack London Nick Mamatas Armistead Maupin Micheline Aharonian Marcom Joaquin Miller Annalee Newitz Katia Noyes Charlotte Painter Peter Plate Elle Peyarre ref https www.createspace.com 900002025 ref Tim Pratt Michael Pollan Carol Queen Lisa Quinn Justin Raimondo Ruth Reichl Daniel Reid Mark Rein Hagen Kathryn Reiss Barbara Jane Reyes Kim Stanley Robinson Rudy Rucker Susan Schaller ref http www.susanschaller.com Susan Schaller ref Ariel Schrag Elena Mauli Shapiro ref http elenamaulishapiro.com ref William Shurtleff ref http www.randomhouse.com author results.pperl?authorid 28274 William Shurtleff at Random House website ref Daniel B. Silver ref http www.amazon.com Daniel B. Silver e B003U4ZJYU ref ntt athr dp pel 1 Daniel B Silver Author Page at Amazon.com ref Dave Smeds Jane Smiley Jeremy Adam Smith St ... more details
BLP sources date December 2010 Inappropriate tone date December 2010 Felice Newman is an American somatic coach, sex educator, and author. Newman is one of the founders of Cleis Press , ref cite news title Sex and politics Cleis creates good feminist bedfellows. url http goliath.ecnext.com coms2 gi 0199 1304569 Sex and politics Cleis creates.html accessdate 21 December 2010 newspaper Lambda Book Report date 1 August 2003 ref ref cite news last Strawley first George title Ironic result for bookseller url http news.google.com newspapers?id YxUmAAAAIBAJ&sjid x 0FAAAAIBAJ&pg 3787,1086413&dq felice newman&hl en accessdate 21 December 2010 newspaper Gettysburg Times date 12 October 1999 page A4 ref the publisher of more than 200 books that survey the contemporary American sexual landscape. Founded with Fr d rique Delacoste in 1980, Cleis Press developed and edited sex books by many well known sex authors, including Susie Bright , Tristan Taormino , Violet Blue author Violet Blue , Patrick Califia and Annie Sprinkle . Newman is the author of The Whole Lesbian Sex Book A Passionate Guide for All of Us ISBN 978 1 57344 199 5 and co editor with Fr d rique Delacoste of Best Sex Writing 2006 ISBN 978 1 57344 237 4 . Newman received her somatic coaching certificate from the Strozzi Institute in Petaluma, CA , where she studied with Richard Strozzi Heckler author of The Anatomy of Change and Staci Haines pioneer in the discourse of Somatics and Trauma, author of the Survivor s Guide to Sex, and creator of the DVD Healing Sex . Newman has studied human sexuality through San Francisco Sex Information and the Body Electric School. She is a member of The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists AASECT . Newman has appeared on Drew Pinsky Dr. Drew s Love Line, Derek & Romaine Show, and other radio programs. She has spoken to audiences on sexuality in a number of cities in the U.S. Her online sex advice has appeared on About.com , ClassicDykes.com, and Le ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2008 A list of the fictional planets featured in the Uplift Universe series of novels by David Brin . Calafia A water world inhabited by humans and neo dolphins, currently occupied by the Soro fiction Soro . The name may refer to Califia , a mythical Black Amazon. Cathrhennlin A Tymbrimi University World. Deemi A world leased to humans on the condition that they run the Galactic prison. It is bathed in ultraviolet radiation. Most of its biosphere is aquatic. Garth The main setting of the novel The Uplift War , which depicts its invasion by the Gubru. The planet was leased to EarthClan after its ecology was devastated by the Bururalli species, and is inhabited by humans and neo chimpanzees. Its star is called Gimelhai, and its main city is Port Helenia. Horst A disaster world, assigned to Humanity less than 6 generations before the Streaker crisis, and populated by Primitivism primitivists . Jijo The main setting of the novels Brightness Reef , Infinity s Shore , and Heaven s Reach . It is a planet orbiting a carbon star in Galaxy 4, illegally inhabited by refugees from eight species humans, Hoon fiction Hoon , G Kek, Urs, Jophur Traeki , Glaver s, Qheuen, and Tytlal. It is also used as a refuge by the EarthClan starship Streaker David Brin Streaker . Jophekka The homeworld of the Jophur , sapient and ambitious sap ring stacks. Juthtath A Tymbrimi world. Kazzkark Minor planet, where an important base of the Navigation Institute gathers data from E Space. Kithrup The main setting of the novel Startide Rising , where the EarthClan starship Streaker takes refuge from its many pursuers. It is a metal rich, watery world orbiting the star Kthsemenee. It is inhabited by the pre sapient Kiqui, and serves as the recuperation home for the psionic Karrank . NuDawn A pre Contact colony whose name may be a pun with Aurora New Dawn where an incident with Hoon inspectors brought Jophur to massacre the human colonists. Oakka A green green world, where the ... more details
Saints and Sinners is an alternative literary festival specializing in LGBT literature, held in various locations around the world famous French Quarter neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana each May. Overview Founded by Paul J. Willis in 2002 as a way to promote information about HIV and AIDS in literature, Saints and Sinners has since expanded to include works of fiction and nonfiction relating to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered issues. ref cite web url http sasfest.org index.php?topic about title Why the Festival Began Saints and Sinners Literary Festival website. Retrieved on June 9, 2008. ref The Festival provides a forum for the dissemination of ideas and promotes those writers and publishers within the community who have successfully brought the issues of LGBT individuals to the forefront. Workshops and discussion panels are hosted where authors can discuss their works for future and emerging authors as well as fans. ref cite web url http www.neworleansonline.com neworleans festivals literaryfestivals sasfest.html title Saints & Sinners Literary Festival New Orleans online.com. Retrieved on June 9, 2008. ref Past participants in the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival include Dorothy Allison , Poppy Z. Brite , Patrick Califia , 1999 in literature 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham , 2008 in poetry United States awards and honors 2008 National Book Award for Poetry National Book Award winner Mark Doty , Amie M. Evans , Jewelle Gomez , Greg Herren , William J. Mann , Jeff Mann , Martin Pousson , Radclyffe , Michelle Tea , and Scissor Sisters front man Jake Shears , among many others. ref cite web url http sasfest.org index.php?topic speakers title Past participants Saints and Sinners Literary Festival website. Retrieved on June 9, 2008. ref Saints and Sinners benefits the NO AIDS Task Force and was designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV AIDS , particularly the development of prevention ... more details
Infobox football league logo 09 SDCSLlogo1.jpg pixels 92px country flagicon USA USA confed United States Soccer Federation founded 1964 teams champions Pumitas FC season Spring 2010 most successful club website www.sdcsl.com current The San Diego Country Soccer League is an adult amateur soccer league featuring teams from San Diego, California and the surrounding areas. The league is an affiliate of the United States Soccer Federation . History The San Diego County Soccer League SDCSL INC is a USSF affiliated adult amateur league. SDCSL has a long and storied history in San Diego. Established in 1964, it is the longest continuously operating adult men s soccer league in San Diego. SDCSL is a nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes that was founded in the early 1980s. Organization The SDCSL is affiliated with FIFA through the U.S. Soccer Federation, the U.S. Adult Soccer Association and the California Soccer Association South CAL SOUTH . Games are officiated under the FIFA Laws of the Game using a center referee and two assistant referees. Unlimited substitutions are allowed with the center referee s permission on dead balls. San Diego County Soccer League was established in 1964. In the early years, league players were of many ethnic groups. SDCSL is approaching its 50th year of existence. Teams in the SDCSL Active as of Spring 2012 Premier Division Pumitas FC Nomads Premier Guadalajara FC FC Portugal San Diego Flash Jazmin FC SBFC Sporting AD Gunners Bluefoot Albion Super Major Division Riptide FC Pacific FC SBFC Roma Chelsea San Diego SOD Celtic SBFC United SD Burn Valencia CF SD United SOD Clan Na Gael Major Division Etihad FC KMA TDAC Dralion SBFC Rangers FC KIW Celtic Alliance Bolt FC Balboa FC Detox United SudaCA FC Major First Division Erin 1916 Califia SC SBFC Sparta FC GTC SBFC Scripps SFL SBFC Vasco SOD ... more details
Scarlet Woman and Dossie Easton in works edited by Patrick Califia , Joan Nestle The Persistent ... Coming A Leatherdyke Reader. Ed. Pat Califia and Robin Sweeney. Boston Alyson Publications, 1996. pp ... more details
File Bloodwulf 01 cover.jpg right thumb 250px Cover of Bloodwulf 01 Publication History Bloodwulf was an American superhero comics title and character created by Rob Liefeld . The character first appeared in the One shot comics one shot Darker Image ref name bw1 Darker Image 1 1993 ref in 1993, published by Image Comics . The character later appeared in a Bloodwulf mini series ref name bw2 Bloodwulf 1 4 1995 ref from 1995 in four issues, illustrated by Daerick Gross Sr. . He also appeared in a one shot from 1995 entitled Bloodwulf Summer Special ref name bw3 Bloodwulf Summer Special 1 1995 ref where he was pitted against Supreme . Character Biography Bloodwulf is an alien bounty hunter from the planet Luap ur where he lives with his multiple wives and brood of children. He craves a life of action, however, and is always ready and willing to leave his quiet, domestic life behind for grand space adventures. His mother, Redwulf, and grandmother, Califia, are also formidable star farers. ref name bw2 Bloodwulf 1 4 1995 ref Bloodwulf s powers include enhanced strength and a personal force field which allows him to breathe in the vacuum of space. Bloodwulf vs. Lobo Bloodwulf as created by Liefeld is very similar to the DC Comics character, Lobo DC comics Lobo . In fact, the cover to Bloodwulf 1 ref name bw4 Bloodwulf 1 1995 ref depicts Lobo hanging dead in the background, signifying that Bloodwulf has symbolically replaced Lobo as the toughest comic character around. Lobo actually appears in Bloodwulf 2 ref name bw5 Bloodwulf 2 1995 ref as a whining, drunken, loser whose days of glory are long past due to the fact that the character was taken out of the hands of his original creators and overexposed by corporate money men. Ironically, one of Lobo s creators, Keith Giffen , did the plot and art breakdowns for the Bloodwulf Summer Special ref name bw3 Bloodwulf Summer Special 1 1995 ref . Rather than being an expansion of the Lobo idea, however, Bloodwulf was almost a direc ... more details
report of the Meese Commission. ref name califia Patrick CalifiaCalifia, Pat . 1986 . http cultronix.eserver.org califia meese The Obscene, Disgusting, and Vile Meese Commission Report. Reprinted in Califia, Pat. 1994 Public Sex The Culture of Radical Sex . San Francisco Cleis Press . ISBN 1 57344 ... was viewed by many as a government attack on civil liberties. ref name califia For its part, WAP held ... . ISBN 0 7102 0248 2 Alderfer, Hannah, Nan D. Hunter, and Patrick Califia . 1987 . Caught Looking ... more details
by Niki de Saint Phalle.jpg thumb Niki de Saint Phalle s only American sculpture garden, Queen Califia ... web url http www.ci.escondido.ca.us events califia chronology.pdf title Niki de Saint Phalle Chronology ... Museum Nasu, Japan http queencalifia.org Niki de Saint Phalle Queen Califia sculpture park in Escondido ... more details
, Matt Rice, a transgender man, bore a son named Blake in October 1999 ref NNDB Pat Califia ... accessdate 2008 03 22 last Califia Rice first Patrick authorlink Patrick Califia ref during his relationship with transgender writer Patrick Califia . ref name CalifiaRice2000 Thomas Beatie, another ... more details
Other persons Louis Sullivan Louis Graydon Sullivan 16 June 1951 2 March 1991 , born Sheila Jean Sullivan, was an United States American author and activist known for his work on behalf of trans men . He founded FTM International, the first exclusively FTM organization and is largely responsible for the modern acknowledgment that sexual orientation and gender identity are totally different concepts. ref name stryker1999 Susan Stryker 1999 . Portrait of a Transfag Drag Hag as a Young Man The Activist Career of Louis G. Sullivan, in Kate More and Stephen Whittle eds . Reclaiming Gender Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle, pp. 62 82. Cassells, ISBN 9780304337767 ref Life and career Sullivan grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin . After working as a secretary for the Slavic Languages Department at the University of Wisconsin , Sullivan and his boyfriend moved to San Francisco . Sullivan started taking male hormones in 1978, then changed his name and took a job at a sporting goods store. He had chest reconstruction in 1980 and genital surgery in 1986. That year he was diagnosed with HIV , and he died of AIDS in 1991. ref name califia1997 Pat Califia 1997 . Sex Changes The Politics of Transgenderism. Cleis Press, ISBN 9781573440721 ref Sullivan wrote the first guidebook for FTM persons, ref name sullivan1985 Louis Sullivan 1980 . Information for the female to male cross dresser and transsexual. Janus Information Society ref and also a biography of the San Francisco FTM, Jack Bee Garland . ref name sullivan1990 Louis Sullivan 1990 . From Female to Male The Life of Jack Bee Garland. Alyson Publications, ISBN 9781555831509 ref Sullivan was instrumental in demonstrating the existence of trans men attracted to men. ref name coleman1988 Eli Coleman & Walter O. Bockting. Heterosexual prior to Sex Reassignment Homosexual Afterwards A case Study of a Female to Male Transsexual. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality . Vol 1 2 . 1988 pp69 82 ref ref name stryker1998 Susan Stryke ... more details
primarysources date May 2010 Arsenal Pulp Press is a Canada Canadian independent book publishing company, based in Vancouver , British Columbia . The company publishes a broad range of titles in both fiction and non fiction , and is noted for founding the annual Three Day Novel Contest now run by the 3 Day Novel Co. . Authors who have been published by Arsenal Pulp full books or in anthologies include Richard Amory, Allan Antliff , Mette Bach , Tanya Barnard, S. Bear Bergman , Marusya Bociurkiw, Michael Bronski, Carellin Brooks , Clint Burnham, Nick Burns, Dreena Burton, Patrick Califia , Anna Camilleri, David Campion, David L. Chapman, David Chariandy , John Robert Colombo , Wayde Compton , Daniel Allen Cox , Ivan E. Coyote , Brad Cran , Amber Dawn , Larry Duplechan, Tess Fragoulis , D.M. Fraser, Jon Furberg, Hiromi Goto , William Gibson , Gabriella Goliger , Brett Josef Grubisic , Celia Haig Brown, Matthew Hays , Gord Hill, Nalo Hopkinson , Sean Horlor , Brian Howell, Robert Hunter journalist Robert Hunter , George K. Ilsley , Joey Keithley , Sarah Kramer , Natasha Kyssa, Richard Labonte, Larissa Lai , Betty Lambert, Catherine Lang, Nicole Markotic, Ashok Mathur , Mark Leiren Young , Dorothy Livesay , Michael Lowenthal , Suzette Mayr , Bridget Moran , Michael Nava , Billeh Nickerson , David Nandi Odhiambo , Stephen Osborne , Allan Peterkin, John Preston author John Preston , Shaun Proulx , Andy Quan , Darlene Quaife , J. Jill Robinson , Michael Rowe journalist Michael Rowe , Jane Rule , Lawrence Schimel , Sarah Schulman , Sandra Shields, Jean Smith , jae steele, Louis Georges Tin, Karen X. Tulchinsky , Michael Turner musician Michael Turner , Sylvia Tyson , David Watmough , Thomas Waugh, Cathleen With , Jim Wong Chu, and Christine Wunnicke. The company has also published art books by or on the work of Stan Douglas , Peter Flinsch , Attila Richard Lukacs , and Ralf K nig . History Established in 1971, Scriveners Pulp Press Limited was one of several ventures in alt ... more details
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Califia Pat Califia ref Califa, Pat 1994 . The Aftermath of the Great Kiddy Porn Panic of 77, The Culture ... of NAMBLA, however, Califia has since completely repudiated his earlier support for NAMBLA ... title & 39 Radical Transformation & 39 , Writer Patrick Califia Rice has long explored the fringes ... more details