Joshua Gershick Author - Joshua Irving Gershick

Dear One: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America

Joshua Irving Gershick

Joshua Irving Gershick’s work illuminates the lives of LGBTQI Americans who’ve been hidden from history. His books include Gay Old Girls, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for Best LGBT Nonfiction; and Secret Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the Military, also winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for Best LGBT Nonfiction. His plays include Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America and Bluebonnet Court, winner of the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre. He is writer/director of the film Door Prize, winner of the Alfred C. Kinsey Award, honoring film that furthers understanding of gender or sexuality.

Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America

Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, by Joshua Irving Gershick, illuminates the lives of ordinary Queer Americans as recounted through letters written between 1953 and 1965, to L.A.’s ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States. Looking for love, friendship or understanding, they wrote of loneliness and longing, of joy and fulfillment, and of their daily lives, hidden from history. Adapted from material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world.