Background
Will Roscoe grew up in Missoula, Montana.
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Will Roscoe
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University of Montana.
Career
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. 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 "Number on 6" campaign against the Briggs Initiative.
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In 1995 he edited and published a selection of writings by Hay, who was also the founder of the gay liberation movement. Roscoe"s first book, "The Zuni Manitoba-Woman", received the Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, as well as the Lambda Literary Award for gay men"s nonfiction. In 2003, he received a Monette-Horowitz Achievement Award for research and scholarship combating homophobia. His book, "Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love", received a Lambda Literary Award in 2005. Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder, by Harry Hay.
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Awards
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Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Award; Margaret Mead Award; Horowitz Achievement Award
Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.