Teaching and Researching the History of Sexual Politics at San Francisco State, 1969–1970

Marc Stein is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses on constitutional law, social movements, and the history of sexuality. He earned a BA in history at Wesleyan University (Connecticut) and a PhD in history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945–1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000); Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2010); Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Routledge, 2012); and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press, 2019). He also served as editor-in-chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of LGBT History in America (Scribners, 2003) and as guest editor of “U.S. Homophile Internationalism,” a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality (2017). He is currently the coeditor of Queer Pasts, a digital history project published by Alexander Street/ProQuest. He has been awarded the Gregory Sprague Prize and Audre Lorde Prize by the Committee on LGBT History (1996 and 2006) and the Graduate Teaching Award by York University (2010). In 2022 the University of California Press will publish his next book, Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism, and Routledge will publish a second edition of Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement.