Matt Brim is Associate Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. Brim’s research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century queer American literature and culture and on queer pedagogy. He is also the author of James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (University of Michigan Press 2014).

Amin Ghaziani is associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is author of three books: There Goes the Gayborhood? (Princeton University Press, 2014); The Dividends of Dissent (University of Chicago Press, 2008); and A Decade of HAART (Oxford University Press, 2008).