Michael Bronski, "Actresses, Communists, Labor Organizers, and Interior Decorators: Lesbian Activists in Early Twentieth Century America"

Michael Bronski is Professor of Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.  He has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades, in both mainstream and queer publications. His books include A Queer History of the United States (Beacon Press, May 2011), Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps (St. Martins, 2003), and The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash and the Struggle for Gay Freedom (St. Martin's, 1998).  His work is included in over fifty anthologies and he currently edits the Queer Action /Queer Ideas series for Beacon Press.

Genny Beemyn, Ph.D.

Director, the Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: www.umass.edu/stonewall

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