Sawdust Confessions: The pleasures are guilty as a diva disappears from Florida's gayest campground (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781450553032)

Florida-based writer/journalist William A. (Bill) Sievert has reported extensively on GLBT-related news and culture for four decades, including coverage of pivotal events of the post-Stonewall gay liberation era for Rolling Stone, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Mother Jones, where his piece on the murder of a San Francisco gay gardener, "The Killing of Mr. Greenjeans," was highly acclaimed. In the mid-1970s he was a news editor for The Advocate, penning the magazine's first major interview with Harvey Milk during his successful campaign for city supervisor. In recent years, Sievert has written on LGBT subject matter for magazines including Orlando Arts and Orlando Weekly (where his cover features included the Florida Magazine Association award-winning "Bears vs. The Promise Keepers" and "Breaking the Silence," a feature on a gay Catholic priest who serves his community despite church ostracism.) He also was editor in chief of the national Sunshine Artist Magazine and co-founder/editor of PULSE, a local arts and cultural magazine in Lake County, Florida. For more than a decade he has contributed a continuing column on gay issues and humorous topics, "CAMPtalk," to the magazine Letters from CAMP Rehoboth in Delaware (www.camprehoboth.com). He also worked with that GLBT community-service group as director of its state-funded AIDS education and awareness Project CAMPsafe in the late 1990s. Sievert is the author of the nonfiction book, "All for the Cause: Campaign Buttons for Social Change" (published by Decoy Magazine Press, 1997), which made Lambda Rising's best-seller list and became a staple at gay bookstores throughout the nation. The book is an historical account of how the progressive social movements of the 1960s-1980s, from the causes of civil rights and peace to women's and gay rights, enhanced one another. The book is lavishly illustrated with historical buttons from the era. He also co-invented and co-wrote the popular game "Gay Trivia" for Whitehall Games in the 1980s. Sievert's articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Louisville Courier-Journal.