Steven F. Dansky

HOT AUGUST NIGHT/1970 chronicles the forgotten LGBT riot one year after the Stonewall Rebellion and one month after the historic first pride march in New York City's Central Park.

Steven F. Dansky, publisher of Christopher Street Press, has been an activist, photographer, and writer for more than fifty years. He was a founder of the Effeminist Movement and an original member of Gay Liberation Front. Now Dare Everything: Tales of HIV-Related Psychotherapy and Nobody’s Children: Orphans of the HIV Epidemic, his books on the HIV/AIDS epidemic were critical early responses to a global health crisis. He is a frequent contributor to the Gay and Lesbian Review. His photographs have been exhibited in New York and Las Vegas. He had a psychotherapy practice in New York for 15 years.