Laud Humphreys
ISBN: 9780299203139
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Wisconsin Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Sociology; Homosexuality; Sociologists;

Laud Humphreys (1930-1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. In graduate school during the late 1960s, he conducted extensive fieldwork in public restrooms in a St. Louis city park to discover patterns of impersonal sex among men. He published the results in Tearoom Trade . Three decades later the book still triggers many debates about the ethics of his research methods. In 1974, he was the first sociologist to come out as gay. Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology examines the groundbreaking work through the life of a complex man and the life of the man through his controversial work. It is an invaluable contribution to sociology and a fascinating record of a courageous life.

John F. Galliher is professor of sociology and direct of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Wayne H. Brekhus is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. David P. Keys is assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York-Plattsburgh.

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