About George Chauncey, Ron Gregg, & Clementine Ford

Professor Chauncey is a celebrated author and scholar best known for his book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (Basic, 1994), which won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Prize for the best book in social history and Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for the best first book in history, as well as The Los Angeles TimesBook Prize and Lambda Literary Award. He has also published Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate over Gay Equality (Basic, 2004) and co-edited three books and special journal issues. His recently published an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine detailing gay history at Yale. He is currently completing another book, The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness, and Politics from the Second World War to the Gay Liberation Era. Since 1993, George Chauncey has participated as a historian in a dozen gay rights cases, including Lawrence v. Texas (2003), for which he organized and was lead author of the Historians' Amicus Brief, and Romer v. Evans (1996) and Perry v. Schwarzenegger (the on-going challenge to California’s Proposition 8), in which he testified at trial as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination.  Chauncey teaches a popular lecture course on U.S. Gay & Lesbian history, which has a loyal following of LGBT and straight students.  Read his article from the Yale Alumni Magazine entitled "Gay at Yale: How Things Changed" here:http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_07/gayivy_033.html#chauncey.

Ron Gregg, Yale professor and George's partner, is Senior Lecturer and Programming Director in the Film Studies Program. As a Senior Lecturer, he teaches courses on queer cinema (both Hollywood and avant-garde), classical Hollywood, and the impact of globalization and digital technology on recent Hollywood film.

Clementine Ford is an American actress and daughter of Cybill Shepherd, is perhaps best known for her appearance as Molly Kroll on the fourth, fifth & sixth seasons of Showtime's The L Word. In April 2009, she joined the cast of the soap opera The Young and the Restless in the role of Mackenzie Browning, the fourth recast of "Mac."