Geoff Mains

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Geoff Mains (✦May 29, 1947 June 21, 1989).

Mains had a doctorate in biochemistry and spent much of his professional career in Vancouver, B.C., where he was a member of the faculty of the Forestry Department at the University of British Columbia. In 1984, he was employed by Environmental Science Associates in San Francisco, enabling him to move to San Franckisco, “which he considered his true home” [1].

Mains will be best remembered in the gay community for his groundbreaking book, “Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leather Sexuality” (1984). He also wrote a powerful novel about San Francisco in crisis, “Gentle Warriors.”

Mains died of complications arising from AIDS at age of 42 years old.

Bibliography

by Geoff Mains, Robert Pruzan (photographer)
  • "Gentle Warriors"
  • "Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice"
by Mark Thompson, Dorothy Allison, Guy Baldwin
  • "Gay Spirit: Myth & Meaning"
  • "Oxygen Revolution"
by Geoffrey Mains < ISBN:071535728X >

Quotes

“The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.” ― Geoff Mains, in "Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality "

References

  1. San Francisco Bay Guardian obitituary

Sources

Also see [ Authors of erotica ] and/or [ Authors of BDSM stories ]

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