Eric E. Rofes Papers
Owning Institution: San Francisco Public Library
About this Collection
Eric Rofes (August 31, 1954–June 26, 2006) was a gay activist, educator, and author who wrote or edited 12 books. He became director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in the 1980s. In 1989, he became executive director of the Shanti Project, a nonprofit AIDS service organization in San Francisco. He resigned in 1993. In 1998, Rofes wrote "Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures," in which he argued that the AIDS crisis had passed and gay men needed to free themselves from the sense of emergency and victimhood. He was a professor of Education at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and served on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and White Crane Institute. One of the last projects he worked on was the creation, with Chris Bartlett, of a series of "Gay Men's Health Leadership Academies" to combat what he saw as a "pathology-focused understanding of gay men" in safe-sex education. The Rofes Papers contains drafts of his writings, clippings, subject and research files, teaching notes, and correspondence. Rofes was involved with the Gay Men's Health Collective, and Shanti Project, among others. His research interests included gay teachers, education, charter schools, gay men's health, AIDS/HIV education, social life of gay men in the 1970s, and media coverage of gay issues. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Bowdoin College. James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center collection number GLC 60. View collection guide.View our statement on digital primary resources and historical description.
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