Shana Agid is an Assistant Professor in Art, Media + Technology at Parsons the New School for Design, and teaches collaborative design, service design, and book arts. Her work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in visual and political cultures. He has an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, is the Art Director for Radical Teacher and a member of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) board.

Marysol Asencio belongs to the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs.

Jason Baumann is Coordinator of Collection Assessment & LGBT Collections at the New York Public Library, as well as Visiting Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science. He has his MLS from Queens College, his MFA from City College, and is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Matthew Brim is Assistant Professor of Queer Studies in the English department of the College of Staten Island, CUNY. He writes on the fiction of James Baldwin and queer pedagogy.

Jeffrey Escoffier writes on glbtq history, politics, culture, sexuality, music, and dance. One of the founders of OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, he is also the author of American Homo: Community and Perversity, and a biography of John Maynard Keynes in the Chelsea House series on the Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians. He co-edited (with Matthew Lore) Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration, and edited Sexual Revolution, an anthology of writing on sex from the 1960s and 1970s. His most recent book is Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore.

Jennifer Gaboury is a Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Hunter College, CUNY.

James Green is a Professor of History and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. Green works on the political, social and, and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Brazil. His books include: We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States(Duke, 2010) and Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-century Brazil (University of Chicago, 1999). He is currently working on a biography of Herbert Daniel, a Brazilian guerrilla leader, political exile, and AIDS activist.

Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor of Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. She earned her B.A. in Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Columbia University (1994, 1998). Dr. Gopinath is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press, 2005).

Amber Hollibaugh is a long-time activist working on LGBT, sexuality, and aging issues. She is currently the co-director of Queers for Economic Justice. She is the author of My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Duke University Press, 2000).

Daniel Hurewitz is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, CUNY. He has written about the LGBT history of both New York and Los Angeles, and teaches courses in the history of sexuality, as well as general U.S. history.

Rebecca Jordan-Young is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Barnard College. Trained in sociomedical sciences at Columbia University (PhD 2000), Beck teaches and conducts research in the areas of sexuality, gender, health, and critical science studies.

Rosamond King is a scholar of international arts and culture, as well as a writer and performer. Her essays and articles on visual art, dance, and literature have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. She is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on the scholarship and legacy of Gayle Rubin ("Rethinking Sex"), and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ("Is There Life after Identity Politics?"). She is currently at work on a book on the source materials for Erving Goffman's 1963 book, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity ("The Stigma Archive").

Neil Meyer is a member of the English Department at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Karen Miller in Associate Professor of Urban Studies at LaGuardia Community College.

Christopher Mitchell is a member of the History Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where he is writing a dissertation entitled, "Condensed to the Point of Explosion": Liber(aliz)ation, Structural Change, and the Changing Market Culture of New York City's Queer Sub-Cultures, 1966-1987." He regularly teaches queer history at both the New Brunswick and Newark campuses.

Jennifer Mitchell is a member of the English Department at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Alyssa Nitchun is Development Associate of Institutional Giving at StoryCorps. Prior to this post she was from the Development Director of CLAGS, working side by side with Executive Director, Sarah Chinn. Previously she worked for NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and spent the early new-millennium immersed in fashion and art as a buyer for Patricia Field, a gallerist in Chelsea, and as a DJ. Alyssa holds an MA degree in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, with an emphasis in gender politics.

Angelique Nixon is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the University of Connecticut's Women's Studies Program.She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship (2008-09) in Africana Studies at New York University, where she engaged in advanced research on migrations and immigrations. She continues as a visiting scholar in Africana Studies for the 2009-10 academic year. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, postcolonial and feminist theories,gender & sexuality studies, and transnational migrations. She earned her Ph.D. in English and graduate certification in women's and gender research from the University of Florida in 2008. Her scholarly work has been published in SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, Lucayos (Caribbean Journal of Literature, Culture,& Arts), and forthcoming in the 2009 book collection The Caribbean Women Writer as Scholar. She is also a creative writer, and her poetry has appeared in Julie Mango, Proud Flesh, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, and Black Renaissance Noire.

Anahi Russo is a PhD candidate in the Women's and Gender Studies department at Rutgers University. She also holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Concordia Univeristy, Canada. She has worked with women's rights organizations in Mexico, Canada, and the United States on organizing and movement building. She is the co-editor of "Building Feminist Movements: Global Perspectives" (2007) and the author of articles on queer spaces and the lesbian movement in Mexico City in WSQ and NWSA journal. Her research currently focuses on gender and sexuality in Latin America, place and space, queer theory, and nationalism.