Notes on Contributors

Barry D. Adam is University Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor, Ontario, and author of The Survival of Domination (1978) and The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (1997) and coauthor of Experiencing HIV (1996) and The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics (1998). He has also published articles on new social movement theory, on Sandinista Nicaragua, on gay and lesbian issues, and on social aspects of AIDS. His website is www.cs.uwindsor.ca/users/a/adam/index.

Brett Beemyn has edited or coedited a number of texts in LGBT studies, including Bisexuality in the Lives of Men: Facts and Fictions (2001), Bisexual Men in Culture and Society (2001), Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories (1997), and Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology (1996). A frequent speaker and writer on bisexual and transgender topics, Brett Beemyn is the coordinator of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Services at the Ohio State University.

Avril Hannah-Jones recently completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis, "Divided We Stand: The Sexuality Debate in the Uniting Church in Australia, 1977-2000," explored the Uniting Church's discussion of homosexuality and analyzed why that church, among the many denominations in Australia, was able to conduct an open debate about sexuality. In 2002 she was accepted as a candidate for the ordained ministry in the Uniting Church, and she is currently studying for an M.Div. at the United Faculty of Theology, Melbourne.

Amanda H. Littauer is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on the political, legal, and social histories of women, gender, and sexuality in the twentieth-century United States. The working title of her dissertation is "V-Girls, B-Girls, and Vagrants: Commercialized Female Sexuality in the Wartime and Postwar Urban West." Her dissertation recently received the Founders' Dissertation Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians.

Horacio N. Roque RamíRez completed his Ph.D. in comparative ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001 and was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 2001 to 2003. He is conducting research on gay Salvadoran immigrant men in the Los Angeles area and completing a book entitled Communities of Desire: Memory and History from Queer Latinas and Latinos in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1960s to 1990s . He has contributed to the Oral History Review , the Encyclopedia of American Immigration , the anthology Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas: Gay Latinos Writing about Love , and the forthcoming anthology Queer Moves: Sexuality, International Migration, and the Contested Boundaries of U.S. Citizenship . In 2003 he received the CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies) fellowship. He is assistant professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.