JOHN D’EMILIO

John D’Emilio is a professor of history and director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches courses in gay and lesbian studies. He is the author or editor of half a dozen books, including Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States and Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (with Estelle Freedman). A collection of his essays, The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture, received the 2003 Editor’s Choice Award of the Lambda Literary Foundation. He has served as co-chair of the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) and was the founding director of NGLTF’s Policy Institute. He has won numerous awards and honors, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. His biography of civil rights leader and pacifist Bayard Rustin, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, was published in summer 2003.