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Kick off LGBTQIA Pride Month with a look back at the dawn of San Franciso’s out and proud gay literary scene. Patrick Marks, current publisher of historically gay press Ithuriel Spear, traces the press’s history from James Mitchell's Hoddypoll Press in 1968 to its most recent publication, Post Traumatic Dress Disorder by Francesca Rosa and Sin Soracco, in 2023.

Pictured above center, James Mitchell in 1968. From the Stephen F. Lowell Papers, 1996-05, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.

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