N. A. Diaman (born Nickolas Antony Diaman on 1 November 1936 in San Francisco) is a gay American novelist and artist. Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city He received a BA in 1958 from the University of Southern California with a major in humanities. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly
He returned to San Francisco after graduation and was introduced to the local poetry scene by George Stanley. George Stanley is an award-winning American - Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years and later a resident of Diaman became part of the Jack Spicer circle in North Beach and joined Robert Duncan's poetry workshop at the San Francisco Public Library. Jack Spicer ( January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American Poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance Robert Duncan may refer to Robert Duncan (poet (1919&ndash1988 U The San Francisco Public Library is a public Library system serving the city of San Francisco.
During the early 1970's, he was active in the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Revolution Party. Gay Liberation Front (GLF was the name of a number of Gay Liberation groups the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969 immediately after the Stonewall He wrote for Zygote magazine and Come Out! before co-founding Queer Blue Light, an independent video production group.
After moving back to San Francisco in the fall of 1972, he was the executive director of the Antares Foundation, which sponsored the San Francisco Gay Video Festival and published Paragraph: A Quarterly of Gay Fiction.
Ed Dean Is Queer, his first novel, was published in 1978. Following My Heart: A Memoir, and The City, his seventh novel, were published in 2007.
In 2000, he launched a new career as a photo-based artist. His work is in private and corporate collections in Paris, Santa Fe, San Francisco and San Miguel de Allende.
He currently lives in San Francisco but travels regularly to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Athens, Greece as well as the Aegean islands of Ikaria and Samos, where his parents and grandparents were born.
Books
- Ed Dean Is Queer (1978)
- The Fourth Wall (1980)
- Second Crossing (1982)
- Reunion (1983)
- Castro Street Memories (1988)
- Private Nation (1997)
- Following My Heart (2007)
- The City (2007)
Bibliography
- Len Richmond and Gary Noguera, The Gay Liberation Book, Ramparts Press, 1973
- Donn Teal, The Gay Militants, Stein and Day, 1971
- Jeanne Pasle-Green and Jim Haynes, Hello, I Love You, Almonde 1975, Times Change Press 1977
- Dudley Glendinen and Adam Nagouney, Out For Good, Simon and Schuster, 1999
- Winston Leyland, Out In The Castro, Leyland Publications, 2002
- Karla Jay and Allen Young, Out Of The Closets, World Publishng 1972, New York University Press, 1992
- Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian, Poet Be Like God, Wesleyan University Press, 1998
- David Carter, Stonewall, St. Martin's Press, 2004
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