Toby Johnson
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Toby Johnson | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) San Antonio,Texas,U.S. |
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| Alma mater | California Institute of Asian Studies |
| Genre | Gayspirituality |
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Toby Johnson(born 1945 inSan Antonio, Texas) is an Americannovelistand writer in the field of gayspirituality.
Life
[edit]After leaving seminary in 1970, Johnson moved toSan Franciscoand lived in the Bay Area throughout the 1970s. While a student at the California Institute of Asian Studies (later renamed theCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies), from which he received a graduate degree in Comparative Religion and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, Johnson was on staff at theMann Ranch Seminars,aJungian-oriented summer retreat program. There he befriended religion scholarJoseph Campbell.[1]
Johnson authored three novels:Plague: A Novel About Healing,Secret Matter,andGetting Life in Perspective.Plague,produced by small gay-interest publisher Alyson Publications, was one of the first novels to treat AIDS through fiction.[2][3]Secret Matter,a speculative, romantic comedy about truth-telling and gay identity featuring a retelling of the Genesis myth with a gay-positive outcome, won aLambda Literary Awardin 1990 and in 1999 was a nominee to the Gay Lesbian Science-Fiction Hall of Fame, the first year of the award. He collaborated with historian, anthropologistWalter L. Williamson the novelTwo Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo.And co-edited, withSteve Berman,publisher ofLethe Press,an anthology of gay-positive stories,Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling.
He is also author ofGay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness[4]andGay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe,which explains how homosexuality can lead to a re-evaluation of people's role in the universe.[5]
From 1996 to 2003, Johnson was editor/publisher ofWhite Crane Journal,a periodical focusing ongaymen's spirituality. As of 2012, he worked as a literary editor with Lethe Press.[1]
His papers are held at the Happy Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.[6]
Bibliography
[edit]- Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the UniversePeregrine Ventures,2003,ISBN978-1727348446
- Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human ConsciousnessPeregrine Ventures, 2000, 2010,ISBN9781727318975
- Secret Matter.Peregrine Ventures, 2005,ISBN9781727179422.This is ascience fictionnovel, set inSan Francisco.
- Getting Life in PerspectivePeregrine Ventures 1991, 2010,ISBN9781727097023
- Plague: A Novel about HealingAlyson Books,1987, 9781555831257, Republished as "The Fourth Quill" by Peregrine Ventures, 2014ISBN9781727066920
- Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo(With Walter L. Williams, PhD) Peregrine Ventures, 2006,ISBN9781088961063
- The Myth of the Great Secret: A Search for Spiritual Meaning in the Face of EmptinessWilliam Morrow and Company,1981,ISBN9780688007812
- The Myth of the Great Secret (2nd Edition): An Appreciation of Joseph CampbellCelestial Arts,1991,ISBN9780890876589
- In Search of God in the Sexual UnderworldWilliam Morrow and Company,1983, 9780688020460
- Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell: The Myth of the Great Secret IIIPeregrine Ventures, 2018,ISBN9781546521075
- Finding God in the Sexual Underworld: The Journey ExpandedPeregrine Ventures, 2020,ISBN9798558467628
As editor
[edit]- Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling(co-edited withSteve Berman) (2006). The inaugural title in the White Crane Wisdom Series, this anthology of inspirational essays and short fiction for gay men earned Johnson aLambda Literary Awardnomination.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abMcDonald, Patrick Range (Jun 7, 2012)."Queer Town L.A. Gay Pride 2012: Author Toby Johnson Answers 'What Does It Mean to Be Gay?'".LA Weekly.Retrieved16 January2013.
- ^Byrne, Joseph Patrick (2008).Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues: A-M.ABC-CLIO. p. 14.ISBN9780313341021.
- ^Shaw, Marvin (2 Feb 1988). "Spirit, Psyche, Self".Advocate(491): 54.
- ^"Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness (review)".Publishers Weekly.Retrieved16 January2013.
- ^Plessas, Peter J (Fall 2004)."Gay Perspective by Toby Johnson (Review)".Ashé Journal.3(3).
- ^"Lavender Legacies Guide: United States: Texas".Lesbian and Gay Archives Roundtable.Society of American Archivists.Retrieved16 January2013.
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- 21st-century American novelists
- American gay writers
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- American spiritual writers
- American LGBTQ novelists
- LGBTQ people from Texas
- American male novelists
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American male non-fiction writers