SUSAN O'NEAL STRYKER
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society
973 Market Street #400
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 777-5455
glhsnc@aol.com

Brief Biography:
Susan Stryker received her Ph.D. in US History at UC Berkeley in 1992. Her dissertation was on the origins of Mormonism as a case study in the formation of identity-based communities. She subsequently worked on the history of sexuality- and gender-based communities. She has been a lecturer, author/journalist, queer activist, and artist from 1992 to 1998. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University's History Department, 1998-2000, and she is the Executive Director of Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California, which runs its own exhibit/lecture series.

Public Projects:

  • "Queer Neighborhood Succession in San Francisco," Castro Area Planning Association Fall 1999 Lecture Series, Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy (forthcoming)
  • "Looking for Compton's: The Lost History of Transsexuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin," work-in-progress lecture/clip/slide show at Frameline's 23rd Annual San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, June 26, 1999
  • Currently in pre-production phase of feature-length documentary film, Looking for Compton's: The Lost History of Transsexuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin

Susan O'Neal Stryker has participated in 100+ public programs over the last ten years and her publications have included regular columns/articles on Bay Area LGBT history in community periodicals, several scholarly articles in academic journals and numerous pieces of commercial journalism.

Publications:

  • Co-author, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle 1996)
  • Contributing editor, The Transgender Issue, (Duke 1998)
  • Author, Christine Jorgensen's Atom Bomb and Other Ecstatic Passages Into Postmodernity (Oxford, forthcoming).

Recommendations:

The Gay and Lesbian Historical Society's webpage: www.glhs.org

Susan Stryker has been listed in the Directory of Califonia Thinkers since 15-Nov-1999 .