George Chauncey
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George Chauncey (b. 1953) is a professor of history at Yale University. He is best known as the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic, 1994).
Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in several major gay rights cases, and he was the organizer and lead author of the Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which weighed heavily in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning the nation's remaining sodomy laws.
He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
[edit] Biography
Chauncey received his Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1989. From 1991 to 2006, he taught in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
[edit] Major works
Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
