George Chauncey

George Chauncey Professor of History and American Studies, is the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 and Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate over Gay Equality, as well as the co–editor of Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past and special journal issues on gender history and transnational approaches to sexuality. He is currently completing a book on The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Gay Liberation Era. With Joanne Meyerowitz, he is co–director of the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities.