ROGER BOURLAND is professor of theory and composition, UCLA Department of Music. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He received the Koussevitzky Prize in Composition at Tanglewood, the John Knowles Paine Fellowship at Harvard, two ASCAP Grants to Young Composers, numerous Meet the Composers grants, and was a co-founder of the Boston-based consortium “Composers in Red Sneakers.” Bourland has composed over one hundred works for all media: solo, instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music, electro-acoustic music, and music for orchestra. His works are published by E.C. Schirmer Music / Boston and Associated Music Publishers, Inc., and recorded on Northeastern Records, 1750 Arch, OpenLoop, and GM Recordings. He set to music selections from the introduction to Paul Monette’s Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog, premiered by the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus in 1993.

CHRIS FREEMAN received his Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University and is professor of English, St. John’s University, Minnesota. He is the editor (with James J. Berg) of Conversations with Christopher Isherwood and the Lambda Literary Award winning The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood. He is on the advisory board of the Isherwood Foundation. He received one of UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Special Collections’s first James and Sylvia Thayer Fellowships to do research in the Monette Papers held by the Department. Freeman is the authorized biographer of Paul Monette and has conducted dozens of interviews toward that project, titled Becoming Paul Monette. He is also editing Monette’s journals for publication. Freeman is now on leave from teaching, and he resides in Los Angeles.

DAVID GROFF is an editor and poet whose most recent volume of poems, Theory of Devolution, was chosen for inclusion in the National Poetry Series. His work as an editor included working with Paul Monette on his novels Afterlife and Halfway Home for Crown Publishers. He serves as Monette’s literary executor along with Monette’s agent Wendy Weil. He has shepherded into publication Monette’s last writing, a brief fable entitled Sanctuary. He lives in New York City.

ERIC GUTIERREZ’s work has been anthologized in the Lambda Literary Award-nominated Indivisible and The Man I Might Become. He is co-editor of Suave: the Latin Male and writer of the theater work By the Hand of the Father, which aired on PBS. For television, he wrote the gay episodes of the GLAAD-nominated Telemundo sitcom Los Beltran. He has just received his degree from Harvard Divinity School, where he delivered the commencement address, “Walk Humbly: A Challenge to Religion in American Public Life.” He attended meetings of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Writers Group, mentored by Paul Monette, and he has served on the Advisory Committee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust. He lives in Boston.

BERNICE HORWITZ is the mother of Roger Horwitz, 1941-1986, the partner of Paul Monette celebrated in Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog and Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. She is an honorary member of the Advisory Committee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust. She lives in Skokie, Illinois.

BRIAN LEUNG holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Indiana University and teaches English at California State University, Northridge. His fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals and his stories have been collected in World Famous Love Acts. A native of San Diego and born to a Chinese father and Euro-American mother, Leung embodies the “post gay” strain of current American writing with characters embodying a wide range of age, gender, racial, and other diversities some of which Paul Monette embodied even in his first novel and moved increasingly toward in his later fiction.

DAN LUCKENBILL is staff, YRL Special Collections. He is a UCLA alumnus and has worked at the Library since 1970, where he has curated over a dozen exhibits and written numerous exhibit catalogs and text for web exhibits. His essay about his friends Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy appeared in the Lambda Literary Award-winning The Isherwood Century. He has published gay fiction since 1975. With the late Daniel G. Calder, UCLA professor of English, he was instrumental in soliciting the papers of Paul Monette for the UCLA Library, and he is the cataloger of those papers and curator of the current exhibit, One Person’s Truth. He is on the advisory board of the Isherwood Foundation, secretary of the Board of Directors, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust.

ROBERT L. MONETTE, the brother of Paul Monette, is an accountant and lawyer who lives in Pennsylvania. Paul Monette designated him as the Trustee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust, and he has discharged these duties since his brother’s death in 1995. The Advisory Committee of the Trust gives its recommendations to Robert Monette as Trustee, and The Trust has given awards to 26 recipients, both individuals and organizations, for their significant contributions toward eradicating homophobia..

CAROL MUSKE-DUKES is a poet, a novelist, and an essayist of personal delights of Los Angeles life in the Los Angeles Times. She is the founder and director of the graduate program in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her awards and prizes include a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Witter-Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, an NEA fellowship, the di Castagnola Award, the Dylan Thomas Poetry Award, an Ingram-Merrill award, and several Pushcart Prizes. Her poetry collections include An Octave Above Thunder and Camouflage. Sparrow, her elegiac work to her husband, actor David Dukes, who died in 2000, was a National Book Award finalist. She holds a unique place in connection with Paul Monette and this exhibit and conference. When Monette was no longer able to write after the death of Roger Horwitz, it was to his notebook alone that he confided his rough drafts of poems in a challenging new style. He then shared these and other drafts with his poet friend Muske-Dukes, transferring them to UCLA in a folder labeled “Carol poems.” The process of sharing and writing new poems with Monette has been written about by Muske-Dukes most beautifully in her essay, “All Through the Night.”

CHRISTOPHER RICE is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels, A Density of Souls and The Snow Garden, and the current thriller set in West Hollywood and central California, Light Before Day. He now lives and works in West Hollywood, California. He writes a regular column for The Advocate and is a sought after participant on numerous writing panels throughout California and the rest of the country. Among influences in his life and writing, he has cited Paul Monette's Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story.

VICTORIA STEELE is head of the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. A former Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, she holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Southern California with a specialty in design, her dissertation topic being the British fashion designer Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon. She lectures frequently on topics in art and fashion history, most recently on Daumier. She serves on numerous nonprofit boards and is the author of an award-winning book on library development.

MARK THOMPSON is a former Senior Editor of The Advocate, founded in Los Angeles, the first and longest-lived gay liberation political and arts journal. He produced one issue with Paul Monette featured on the cover. Thompson is an author, editor, and photographer, most known for his seminal works on gay spirit, including, Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning, reprinted 2005. He has just finished a traveling show of portraits of pioneer gay leaders and gurus, many of whom were interviewed for Gay Spirit. He is also a psychotherapist. Among numerous community services, he has served as vice president, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, and he is on the Advisory Committee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner Episcopal priest and writer Malcolm Boyd. On the occasion of this exhibit and conference, Thompson has donated to the UCLA Library his portrait photograph of Paul Monette.

WINSTON WILDE is an alumnus of Antioch University and is a psychotherapist with offices in Beverly Hills, California. He is also a professor of Sexuality and Gender Studies and has conducted pioneering research into the sexualities of blind persons. His book exploring patterns of queer love is in publication. He is the surviving lover of Paul Monette and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust. The Trust, according to the wishes of Paul Monette who endowed the Trust, has to date granted 26 awards to individuals and organizations fighting to eradicate homophbobia.

TERRY WOLVERTON is a Los Angeles feminist art historian, performance artist, poet, fiction writer, and editor. Insurgent Muse, her history of the Los Angeles Woman’s Building and her involvement with its services and administration 1977-1989, won the Judy Grahn Award from the Publisher’s Triangle and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. She has been a finalist for seven other Lambda Literary Award nominations. Among many other grants and awards, she has received numerous Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and California Arts Council fellowships, as well as awards from Christopher Street West, Southern California Library for Social Research, and the Gay and Lesbian Academic Union. She is in demand as editor, teacher, and reader, having presented her recent novel in verse, Embers, as a staged reading at the Los Angeles Public Library. She teaches writing privately at Writers at Work, which she founded in 1997 and also provides management consultation through ConsultHer, founded in 1982. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Monette-Horwitz Trust. At the GLAAD benefit honoring Paul Monette shortly before his death, she read her poem, “As Vulcan Falls from Heaven (for Paul Monette).”

THOMAS WORTHAM has been chair of the UCLA Department of English since 1997. His scholarly interests include Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Dean Howells, and Mark Twain, all of whose works he has edited. Since 1984 he has served as the editor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and is currently working on a new critical edition of Emerson’s poems and editions of Howells’s early political writings and radical essays of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is on the advisory board of the Isherwood Foundation.