DRAFT: Gryphon Blackswan

DRAFT

A Memorial Scrapbook for
Gryphon Blackswan
(Christopher Tate Anderson)

Draft: I'm gradually scanning materials and getting them ready for the Web, but they're not yet organized or presented tastefully. So please treat this page as a preview of coming attractions, and bookmark it so you'll come back in a month or two. Or you can sign up to be automatically notified when this page is updated.

[Biography] [Writings] [Pictures] [Garments]

Biographical Info

born: 4/19/51 Detroit

died: 4/18/96 Santa Cruz

Chronology
(West of Chicago on farm)

Chicago, IL: Lake Shore Drive

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Porland, OR

1988-90 Tokyo, Japan

Wolf Creek, OR: on and off the Faerie Sanctuary

Santa Cruz area: nanny for 2 orphans

July '95 - April '96 Ukiah, CA (Ford St.)

April '96 Santa Cruz, CA

Writings and Documents

Mother to Son (poem by Langston Hughes)
Expecting the Best (not fully scanned yet)

How clearly Langston expresses the utter unstoppability of a black woman's love for her son. The knowledge that he will face hard times and may seek to give up is informed by the recognition that he simple can't be allowed to. This is my legacy from Delores, my mother.

The Sigh Is Gone (article in Summer '96 Lavendar Reader, not scanned yet)

When Mother came to San Francisco, she was treated like visiting royalty by half the Castro District...
A big-boned farm boy became a regular -- and eventually a headliner -- at the only gay-owned drag lounge on Chicago's ritzy North Side. There I found love and community...
The forces arrayed against a gay, African-American man in America can and do destroy people...
The sigh is gone. With the love of Delores, and her faith in me, anything is possible.

Resume (Ukiah)

Martin Keogh:

Gryphon's presence cried out to those around him: "Feel." His apparel bellowed: "Look at me." ...

Barry Spector, A Memory of Gryphon

I first met Gryphon at the Men's Multi-Cultural Conference at Fairfax in March of 1995...

AIDS Quilt

Panel and letter about Gryphon

Photos

Childhood:

With Family:

Candid

Click on a photo to get a larger version

Eventually, I expect we'll have something complete and tasteful here. In the meantime, here's what's been found so far, and loose ends we're tracking down...

I'd like to get the full text of his writings, bunches of photos, pages from his design book, and pictures of garments. Plus maybe a short biography, and quotes from some of the videos he appeared in.

Loose ends:

Gryphon was collaborating with a Berkeley author on a book about mothers and our relationships to them. He apparently has some photos, including those of G as a child. Anybody know his name or number?
Meadow has some photos she was going to copy; I'm trying to reach her.
Tee Corinne did one video of Gryphon (shown at the Menocino Co Museum); does she have other materials?
Alan referred me to somebody at the Mosaic Community in SF, where G was involved; she did an altar for him last year.
I'm going to talk to the curator of the Mendocino Co Museum exhibit which included G's work.
Can anybody out there duplicate VHS tapes?

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