Eric Garber

Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo edited two editions of Uranian Worlds: A Reader's Guide to Alternative Science Fiction and Fantasy, (???? and 1990) a comprehensive bibliography of works of science fiction and fantasy with queer content. Uranian Worlds won a Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 1998, the award's first year.

In addition, Garber edited three science fiction/fantasy/horror anthologies, Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986) (with Camilla Decarnin and Lyn Paleo), Embracing the Dark (1991) (collaborators Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Kij Johnson, illustrated by George Barr) and Swords of the Rainbow (1995) with Jewelle Gomez. In addition to science fiction and fantasy editing and bibliography,

Garber was also a scholar of the gay aspects of the Harlem Renaissance, culminating in "A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem," which wikipedia calls "still probably the definitive article re: GLBT performers in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s."

He died of AIDS in 1995. His papers are stored in the Eric Garber Collection at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBTHS) of Northern California, San Francisco, California.

External Links

[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansy_Craze the Wikipedia article citing "A Spectacle in Color]