| 词条 | Mark Thompson (author) |
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| name = Mark Thompson | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = August 19, 1952 | birth_place = Monterey County, California, U.S. | death_date = August 23, 2016 | death_place = Palm Springs, California, U.S. | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Silver Lake, Los Angeles, U.S. | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma mater = San Francisco State University | employer = | occupation = Journalist, author | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Malcolm Boyd | children = | parents = | relatives = }} Mark Thompson (August 19, 1952 – August 11, 2016) was an American journalist and author. He was a senior editor for The Advocate and the author of several books about LGBT culture. He received the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2008. Early lifeMark Thompson was born on the Monterey Peninsula in California.[1][2] He graduated from San Francisco State University, where he studied journalism.[2] While in college, he became a gay activist and joined the Radical Faeries.[1] He was also the co-founder of the Gay Students Coalition with Professor John Paul De Cecco as the faculty advisor,[3] and started a gay newspaper on campus.[2] CareerThompson became a journalist for The Advocate, the main LGBT magazine in the United States, in 1975.[1][2] For two decades, he wrote many articles about gay activism and the responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.[1] He also conducted many interviews, including gay British painter David Hockney and gay politician Harvey Milk.[2] Thompson was the author of four books about gay culture, including a history of The Advocate.[2] He also wrote his memoir.[1] Additionally, he was an amateur photographer, and he exhibited his photography of Harry Hay and others in San Francisco.[1] Thompson was the recipient of the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2008.[4] Personal life and deathThompson was married to Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest who was 30 years older than him and predeceased him.[2] They met in 1984 and married in 2013.[1] They lived in Silver Lake, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.[2] Boyd's role as spiritual leader inspired Thompson to explore his own spirituality. Mark, in the course of writing books on queer spirituality, began to see and believe that gay people had a "magical, deep, mysterious quality". This viewpoint, along with the emotional support of his husband, invigorated his sense of self esteem and the belief that given the choice he would "never have chosen to be any other way" than gay. It was Thompson's hope that his work would serve to help other queer people with their spiritual struggles.[18] Thompson joined the Radical Faeries while in college.[1] He was a cofounder of Black Leather Wings, an organization for spiritual gay leather folk, a mostly pagan group affiliated with the Radical Faeries.[5][6][7] Thompson had HIV/AIDS.[2] In an oral history interview with the Lavender Effect, Thompson described himself as "serial monogamous" at the time he contracted the virus, but admitted to having several boyfriends in a short period of time. He contracted the virus from one of them in 1979 or 1980. Many of his lovers died of the disease, as did his own brother, Kirk. Thompson states that his brother died in his arms in 1987, months before the first effective AIDS medications were released to the public.[8] Thompson died on August 23, 2016 in Palm Springs, California, where he moved after his husband's death.[2] His cause of death was undetermined, but it was believed he fell or fainted due to illness or side effects from his medication.[2] TributeThe San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring leather culture; it opened in 2017.[6][7] One of the works of art is metal bootprints along the curb which honor 28 people (including Thompson) who were an important part of the leather communities of San Francisco.[7][6] Notable works
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite news|last1=Grindley|first1=Lucas|title=Editor and Author, Mark Thompson, Remembered for Grasp of Gay Spirit|url=http://www.advocate.com/media/2016/8/13/advocate-editor-and-author-mark-thompson-remembered-grasp-gay-spirit|accessdate=January 30, 2017|work=The Advocate|date=August 13, 2016}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite web|last1=Ocamb|first1=Karen|title=Mark Thompson, Author, Photographer, Historian, Friend Dies at 63 (UPDATED)|url=https://thepridela.com/2016/08/mark-thompson-author-photographer-historian-friend-dies-63/|website=Pride Los Angeles|accessdate=January 30, 2017|date=August 13, 2016}} 3. ^{{cite news|last1=Guthmann|first1=Edward|title=S.F. State professor of sexuality class lived the life -- and still does at 82|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/S-F-State-professor-of-sexuality-class-lived-the-2561208.php|accessdate=November 13, 2017|work=The San Francisco Chronicle|date=May 10, 2007}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Complete List of Award Recipients|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/complete-list-of-award-recipients/|website=Lambda Literary Foundation|accessdate=February 4, 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|author=Dusk Peterson |url=http://duskpeterson.com/leatherculture/spirituality/organizations.htm |title=Transcend | Leather Spirituality Organizations |publisher=Duskpeterson.com |date= |accessdate=2018-06-23}} 6. ^1 2 http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/ringold-alleys-leather-memoir.html 7. ^1 2 {{cite web|last=Paull |first=Laura |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2018/06/21/honoring-gay-leather-culture-with-art-installation-in-soma-alleyway/ |title=Honoring gay leather culture with art installation in SoMa alleyway – J |publisher=Jweekly.com |date= |accessdate=2018-06-23}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Andy|first1=Sacher|title=Oral History Project - MARK THOMPSON (1953-2016)|url=http://www.thelavendereffect.org/projects/ohp/mark-thompson/|website=The Lavender Effect|publisher=The Lavender Effect|accessdate=15 April 2017}} External links
10 : 1952 births|2016 deaths|People from Monterey County, California|People from Los Angeles|Writers from Palm Springs, California|San Francisco State University alumni|Journalists from California|Gay writers|Radical Faeries|People with HIV/AIDS |
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