The journal GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies is where queer theory has defined and transformed itself. On the occasion of the GLQ’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the editors, authors, and readers of the journal commemorate its impact on the field. The issue includes an extended “GLQ Forum” that looks back at specific articles and special issues, examines the significance and impact of each, and includes critiques and considerations of how these key works continue to resonate. A special section highlights and reflects on the contributions of major theorists such as Cathy Cohen, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Susan Stryker.

Contributors: Jafari S. Allen, Marlon M. Bailey, Gabby Benavente, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Andy Campbell, V Varun Chaudhry, Mel Y. Chen, Jih-Fei Cheng, Oliver Coates, Cathy Cohen, Rachel Corbman, Carolyn Dinshaw, Allen Durgin, Elizabeth Freeman, John S. Garrison, Julian Gill-Peterson, Chase Gregory, Sarah Haley, David M. Halperin, Christina B. Hanhardt, Scott Herring, Heather Love, Dana Luciano, Whitney Monaghan, Marcia Ochoa, John Petrus, Elliott H. Powell, Nic John Ramos, Chandan Reddy, Richard T. Rodríguez, Nayan Shah, Stephanie Shelton, C. Riley Snorton, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, L. H. Stallings, Susan Stryker, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Karen Tongson, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Rachel Walerstein, Mary Zaborskis

Marcia Ochoa is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, also published by Duke University Press.

Jennifer DeVere Brody is Associate Professor of English, African American Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play and Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, both also published by Duke University Press.