Career
With Terry Helbing and Felice Picano, he cofounded Gay Presses of New York in 1981. Mitchell"s novel The Terminal Bar, published in 1982, is considered to be the first book of fiction to address Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The feature film Acid Snow (1998) directed by Joel Itman is based on Mitchell"s novel of the same name. Mitchell received a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from Columbia University.
At that time, he co-edited the book "Willard Waller on The Family, Education and War" with William J. Goode and Frank Furstenberg published in 1970.
He was born in Muncie, Indiana in 1939 and died on December 26, 2012 in Ithaca, New York after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
