Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist by D'Emilio, John
Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist by D'Emilio, John

Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist

Making Gay History recounts John D'Emilio's career as a public historian, activist, and academic. Tracing his involvement...
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Author: John D'Emilio
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist by D'Emilio, John

Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist

$39.54
Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist by D'Emilio, John

Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist

$39.54
Author: John D'Emilio
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Making Gay History recounts John D'Emilio's career as a public historian, activist, and academic. Tracing his involvement in developing LGBTQ history from the 1970s to the 1990s, D'Emilio paints a queer history both personal and national that helps us understand how the LGBTQ movement has grown.

Making Gay History continues John D'Emilio's story, following his memoir of his early years, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood. Here, D'Emilio recounts his career as a public historian, activist, and academic, relating his own queer history alongside the development of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. D'Emilio was part of the first burgeoning period of LGBTQ studies while still a graduate student in New York City. From there, he takes readers through his experiences as an out professor at UNC Greensboro, his activism in Washington, DC, and finally, his employment at the University of Illinois as an LGBTQ historian, a position that was unimaginable at the start of his career. At the same time, he narrates his own coming out, his successes and struggles with LGBTQ advocacy, and the loves and losses faced throughout his adult life, telling an intertwined personal and national history of queer hearts and minds.

Author: John D'Emilio
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781478033844


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 93

About the Author
John D'Emilio is Emeritus Professor of History and Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood and The World Turned, both published by Duke University Press, as well as Queer Legacies.
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