Richard Summerbell

Biography

Richard C. Summerbell is a Canadian mycologist, author and award-winning songwriter. He was editor-in-chief of an international scientific journal Medical Mycology from 2000 to 2004. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a gay activist and an early commentator on (then) controversial topics such as AIDS and promiscuity and attitudes to homosexuality in organized religion.