Rate My Professor John D’Emilio

D’Emilio is a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. His key publications include Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970 (University of Chicago Press, 1983; second edition, 1998); Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, co-authored with Estelle B. Freedman (Harper & Row, 1988; second expanded edition, University of Chicago Press, 1997), cited by Justice Anthony Kennedy in the Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court decision; Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (Routledge, 1992); The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture (Duke University Press, 2002); and Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Free Press, 2003), a National Book Award finalist, Stonewall Award winner, and New York Times Notable Book. He has received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1998–1999), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1997–1998), Brudner Prize from Yale University (2005) for lifetime contributions to lesbian and gay studies, University Scholar Award at UIC (2003–2005), and induction into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame (2005).