John D'Emilio

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**John D'Emilio**
Born:	1948 New York City
Occupation:	writer and educator

John D'Emilio (born 1948, New York City) is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has taught previously at George Washington University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982.

A Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, from 1995 to 1997 he served as the Founding Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. He is the author of several publications, including Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace and Justice in America (The Free Press, 2003), which won the Stonewall Book Award for non-fiction; The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture (Duke University Press, 2002); Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy and Civil Rights (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), co-edited with William Turner and Urvashi Vaid; Making Trouble:Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (New York: Routledge, 1992); Intimate Matters:A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1988), coauthored with Estelle Freedman; The Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile (New York: Facts-on-File, Inc., 1979); and The Universities and the Gay Experience: of a Conference Sponsored by the Women and Men of the Gay Academic Union (New York, 1974). He was the 2005 recipient of the Brudner Prize at Yale University.

His most important and widely cited book, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities (University of Chicago Press, 1983), is considered a definitive history of the U.S. homophile movement from 1940 to 1970.