Nyman, Jim

Michael T. Roper memorialized Jim Nyman in his book, Memories of My Gay Brothers (2000).

Jim!! You literally changed my life. You took a chance having a conversation on a SOMA sidewalk with a stranger 20 years your junior late one night. On that sidewalk, I made a friend who would open my world in more ways than I could have imagined. I don’t believe in the divine, but somehow I chose the perfect stranger to reach out to. Somehow that very confused young man, in a flash, saw the kind and old soul you were. I took a chance, and you took me up on it. I’ll never forget what you did for me Jim.