Eric Rofes
Eric Rofes (born 1955 — died June 26, 2006) was a gay activist and author who wrote or edited 12 books.
In 1998 Rofes wrote Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures, in which he argued that the AIDS crisis had passed and gay men needed to free themselves from the sense of emergency and victimhood. A review in The Nation described Dry Bones Breathe as "perhaps the most important book about gay male culture and community of the past decade."
Rofes was a native of Brooklyn, New York and a graduate of Harvard University. He received a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 and a doctorate in social and cultural studies in 1998.
He became director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center in the 1980s.
In 1989 Rofes became executive director of the Shanti Project, a nonprofit AIDS service organization in San Francisco. He resigned in 1993, following an audit that questioned how the group had spent federal funds.
Rofes was a professor at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and served on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Rofes was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, working on his 13th book when he died of a heart attack.