Les K. Wright

Les K Wright is an author, editor, gay historian, gay activist, long-term (pre-HAART) AIDS survivor, and retired professor of English and German. He is a founding member and founding board member of the LGBT Historical Society of San Francisco, and the founder and curator of the Bear History Project. He has appeared in several documentaries. His papersm including the BearHisgtoryProect, are archived in the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University (https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM07656.xml).

He was educated at University at Albany (BA), Universität Würzburg, Universität Tübingen (MA), UC Berkeley (MA, PhD). He had a fellowship in Netherlandic Studies at Berkeley and a Fulbright/DAAD fellowship at Cornell. He was a tenured professor of English and Humanities at Mount Ida College (Boston) and has adjuncted at several universities and colleges in New York, Massachusetts, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

He is currently writing a memoir.

Check out the DVD "Bear Run" (Dan Hunt, director), which contains a full-length interview with Les K. Wright.