John D'Emilio

John D'Emilio (born 1948) is a

Honors and awards

D'Emilio was awarded the Stonewall Book Award in 1984^[3] for his most widely cited book, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, which is considered the definitive history of the U.S. homophile movement from 1940 to 1970. His biography of the civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace and Justice in America, won the Randy Shilts Award and the Stonewall Book Award for non-fiction in 2004.^[4] He was the 2005 recipient of the Brudner Prize^[5] at Yale University.

In 1999, D'Emilio was Honored with the David R Kessler award for LGBTQ Studies from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies^[6]

His and Estelle Freedman's book Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America was cited in Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 American Supreme Court case overturning all remaining anti-sodomy laws.^[7][8]

In 2005 D'Emilio was inducted into the

He received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle in 2013.

Personal life

Jim Oleson, D'Emilio's partner since the early 1980s, died at their home in Chicago on April 4, 2015.^[10]

Works

Author

• Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983; 2nd edition, with a new preface and afterword, 1998)
• Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (New York: Routledge, 1992)
• The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002)
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (New York: Free Press, 2003; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
• Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)

Co-author

• With Estelle Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1988; 2nd expanded edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997; 3rd edition, 2012)

Editor

• The Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile (New York: Facts-on-File, 1979), with an introduction
• The Universities and the Gay Experience: Proceedings of the Conference Sponsored by the Women and Men of the Gay Academic Union, November 23 and 24, 1973 (New York: Gay Academic Union, 1974), with an introduction

Co-editor

• With William Turner and Urvashi Vaid, Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy and Civil Rights (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000)

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