![]() In 2005 D'Emilio was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. Texas, the 2003 American Supreme Court case overturning all remaining anti-sodomy laws. ![]() His and Estelle Freedman's book Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America was cited in Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence v. In 1999, D'Emilio was Honored with the David R Kessler award for LGBTQ Studies from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies He was the 2005 recipient of the Brudner Prize at Yale University. His biography of the civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace and Justice in America, won the Randy Shilts Award and the Stonewall Book Award for non-fiction in 2004. Honors and awards ĭ'Emilio was awarded the Stonewall Book Award in 1984 for his most widely cited book, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, which is considered the definitive history of the U.S. Jim Oleson, his partner since the early 1980s, died at their home in Chicago on April 4, 2015. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997. ![]() from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg. ![]() ![]() He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. John D'Emilio (born 1948) is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ![]()
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