Joshua Irving Gershick

About Joshua Irving Gershick

Joshua Irving Gershick’s plays include Dear ONE: Love & Longing in Mid-Century Queer America, Coming Attractions and Bluebonnet Court, winner of the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre. He is writer/director of the film Door Prize, winner of the Alfred C. Kinsey Award, honoring film that furthers understanding of gender or sexuality; and author of two acclaimed oral histories Gay Old Girls,” winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for LGBT Nonfiction, an American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book of the Year Nominee, and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist; and Secret Service: Untold Stories of Lesbians in the Military, winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for LGBT Nonfiction and a C-SPAN Book TV featured title. He has taught undergraduate and graduate writing around the country and is a frequent speaker on LGBTQI history and transgender cultural competency & health care. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he earned an MFA from the USC School of Dramatic Arts & an MPW from USC Dornsife College. Gershick was lead media wrangler at USC for more than a decade, where he worked with press from around the world. He is a U.S. Army veteran and member of the Dramatists Guild and the Authors Guild.