David Lourea


David Nachman Lourea was an American writer, AIDS activist, and bisexual rights activist.
He was raised as Orthodox Jewish, and was openly bisexual.
In 1967 he earned a B.F.A. from Temple University; he later earned a Ph.D from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. He was involved with San Francisco Sex Information after moving to that city in 1973, and was one of the early members of the San Francisco Bisexual Center. In 1981 he and Cynthia Slater "presented safer-sex education workshops in bathhouses and BDSM clubs in San Francisco." In 1984 he finally persuaded the San Francisco Department of Public Health to recognize bisexual men in their official AIDS statistics, after two years of campaigning. Health departments throughout the United States began to recognize bisexual men because of this, whereas before they had mostly only recognized gay men. He was also one of the founders of Bisexual Counseling Services.
He died in 1992 from kidney failure associated with AIDS.
The David Lourea Papers, 1940–1992, are held at the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center in the San Francisco Public Library.

Publications of David Lourea