Nan Alamilla Boyd is professor of women and gender studies, San Francisco State University and author of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965.

Horacio N. Roque Ramírezis associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of the forthcoming Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s.

Kelly Anderson teaches women and gender studies at Smith College and is an oral historian at the Sophia Smith Collection. Her research interests include the history of feminisms, sexuality, and LGBT communities. She has been conducting oral history interviews for more than twenty years and is completing her dissertation about contemporary lesbian activists, entitled "I Wanted It Like a Lover, I Wanted It Like Justice."

Nan Alamilla Boyd is a professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University. Her academic interests include the history of sexuality, historical methodology, urban tourism, and globalization. Her first book, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, charts the rise of gay and lesbian politics in San Francisco. Her current research explores the history of tourism in San Francisco.

John D'Emilio is a professor of gender and women's studies and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author or editor of more than half a dozen books, including Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970; Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America; and Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. His awards include Guggenheim, NEH, and ACLS fellowships; the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime contributions to gay and lesbian studies; and the Stonewall Book Award of the American Library Association.

Steve Estes is a professor of history at Sonoma State University, where he specializes in modern American history. He is the author of I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement and Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out.

Michael David Franklin is a historian, writer, and educator who received his PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota in 2011. His dissertation examines transgender cultural production on film and video over the last sixty years in order to theorize biopower at the intersection of medicine and mass visual culture. A member of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project, he is the coeditor of Queer Twin Cities.

Jeff Friedman is associate professor of dance history and theory at Rutgers University. He researches theories, methods, and practices of dance documentation, focusing on oral history for dance and performance as research inquiry. He is a Fulbright Fellow and has received eight National Endowment for the Arts grants and the James V. Mink and Forrest C. Pogue awards for his oral history work. Friedman has published articles and book chapters in the UK, Spain, Germany, Korea, and New Zealand.

Marcia Gallo is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her PhD in 2004 from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Her 2006 book, Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement, won the Lambda Literary Award and was named a best book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Gallo also received the Passing the Torch Award from CUNY's Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in 2007. Her next book is on the 1964 murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese.

Carrie Hamilton is reader in history at Roehampton University, London. Her research interests include oral history, cultural memory, histories of political activism, revolution and violence, feminism, and the history of sexuality, with particular focus on Spain and Latin America. Her book Sexual Revolutions: Passion and Politics in Socialist Cuba is forthcoming.

Karen C. Krahulik is senior assistant dean of the faculty and curriculum and adjunct associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She specializes in LGBT history, oral history, and queer theory. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the Bay State Historical League, Harvard University, Princeton University, and New York University and is the author of Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort.

Daniel Marshall is a lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include histories of sexuality and education in Australia, queer and sexuality studies, educational policy, sexualities education, and cultural studies and youth. He is vice president of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Martin Meeker is an academic specialist with the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published essays in the Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the Journal of Women's History. His books include The Oakland Army Base: An Oral History and Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s, winner of the 2005-2006 John Boswell Prize.

Daniel Rivers is a visiting assistant professor at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University. His research interests include LGBT history, histories of the family and sexuality, radical social movements in the United States, and Native American history. He is currently finishing a book entitled Radical Relations: A History of Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children in the United States, 1945-2003.

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez is associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Department of History, the Department of Feminist Studies, and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program. His forthcoming book is entitled Memories from Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s. He specializes in LGBTQ Latino history, oral history theories and methods, and Central American migration studies.

Jason Ruiz is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a faculty fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies. He co-founded the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project with Kevin P. Murphy in 2003. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, Ruiz is the co-editor of Queer Twin Cities and a special issue of the Radical History Review. He is currently completing his first book, which examines the politics of empire in representations of travel to Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Eric C. Wat is the director of research and evaluation at Special Service for Groups, a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles. He has taught Asian American studies at various colleges in Southern California.

"Students of the LGBTQ movement will find the excerpts thought provoking. Oral historians and researchers who use oral history will profit from reading the excellent commentaries...Highly recommended."--CHOICE

"This exciting, well-conceived collection examines the centrality of oral history to the development of LGBTQ history over the last four decades. Vitally important, this ground-breaking book will prove significant to any number of students and scholars of history, ethnography, and American studies."--John Howard, King's College London

"With its innovative format-oral history transcripts combined with comments about the interview process--Bodies of Evidence powerfully demonstrates the methodological value of queer oral history. As documents of intimacy, sexuality, and the everyday, both the interviews and the behind-the-scenes stories make for compelling reading."--Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas at Austin