Jim Van Buskirk

Jim Van Buskirk is co-author of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle Books, 1996) and Celluloid San Francisco: The Film Lover's Guide to Bay Area Movie Locations (Chicago Review Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in I Do, I Don't: Queers on Marriage (Suspect Thoughts, 2004), Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Harrington Park Press, 2004), Contemporary Gay American Poets & Playwrights (Greenwood, 2002) as well as other books, magazines, newspapers, websites, and radio broadcasts. He is Program Manager of the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library.

Read an excerpt from "At the Museum of Jewish Heritage"

Read this interview with co-editor Jim Van Buskirk and contributor Joan Annsfire in J: The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. Jim reveals his recent discovery that he is Jewish after all.