Mishkin, Ian

NAME: Mishkin, Ian

Biography: Ian was a young man with a gentle, sweet spirit, a folksinger at coffee houses in the South Street neighborhood where he lived in a second floor apartment on Leithgow Street above a restaurant (now Marrakech).

He sang Scottish and English ballads from the Childe collection, songs by Leonard Cohen, with an affecting baritone voice. He also loved opera, and was a fan of Renata Tebaldi, especially.

He was one of the original group founding the Kater Street Gay Community Center around 1975.

He later moved to San Francisco in the late 1970s where he continued his folk singing, working in medical care, and achieving his degree to become a psychological counselor who was loved and respected. He did all this on his own as his family, from New Jersey, had rejected him after he came out as gay.

Ian's passion for opera led him to "super" in San Francisco Opera productions from 1985 - 1995.

In late summer 1998 he began suffering from a neurological disorder apparently similar to ALS and became

seriously debilitated by August 2003, according to the last information available about him on the Internet

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Date of Birth: Approximately 1955

Date of Death: Approximately late 2003

Age at Death: Approximately 48

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Social/Political Groups he attended: Kater Street Community Center

His friends included: (type your name here, or names of others) Bob Stewart (who wrote this biography)

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