Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009)

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1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

   Author of Epistemology of the Closet, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love

2. Judith Butler

   Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, Giving an Account of Oneself

3. Martin Duberman

   Author of Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, Cures: a Gay Man's Odyssey, About Time: Exploring the Gay Past

4. Judith Halberstam

   Author of Female Masculinity, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

5. Michael Warner

   Author of The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory

6. David M. Halperin

   Author of Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series), Gay Shame

7. Michel Foucault

   Author of The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure

8. John D'Emilio

   Author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University

9. Frank Browning

   Author of The Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today, A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self

10. Leo Bersani

    Author of Homos, The Freudian Body, Intimacies

11. Joan Nestle

    Author of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Sister & Brother: Lesbians & Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together

12. Jonathan Ned Katz

    Author of Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., The Invention of Heterosexuality

13. Lee Edelman

    Author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory

14. D. A. Miller

    Author of The Novel and The Police, Bringing Out Roland Barthes

15. Diana Fuss

    Author of Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, Identification Papers: Readings on Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Culture

16. Eric Marcus

    Author of Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights

17. Henry Abelove

    Author of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

18. Neil Miller

    Author of Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present, In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change/30830

19. Karla Jay

    Author of Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, Lavender Culture

20. David F. Greenberg

    Author of The Construction of Homosexuality