Prof. Will Roscoe

Will Roscoe has been active in the the gay movement since 1975, when he helped found Lambda, the first gay/lesbian organization in Montana. He worked with Harvey Milk in the "No on 6" campaign against the Briggs Initiative. He worked closely with the group Gay American Indians (GAI) on issues around the meaning of the term "berdache" and served as coordinating editor for the GAI's collection of nonfiction essays and short stories, Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Roscoe's first book, The Zuni Man-Woman, won the Lambda Literary Award for gay men's nonfiction and the Margaret Mead Award. In 2003, he received a Monette-Horwitz Achievement Award for research and scholarship combating homophobia.