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'''Jeffrey Weeks''' (born 1945) is a British sociologist, historian and gay activist.
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[[File:Jeffrey Weeks.jpg|thumb|Jeffrey Weeks]]'''Jeffrey Weeks''' (born 1945) is a British sociologist, historian and gay activist.
  
 
He joined the [[Gay Liberation Front]] in 1970, and was a founder member of [[Gay Left]].<ref>http://gayleft1970s.org/intro.asp Jeffrey Weeks, ''Gay Left - an Overview''. Gay Left Collective, 2007</ref>
 
He joined the [[Gay Liberation Front]] in 1970, and was a founder member of [[Gay Left]].<ref>http://gayleft1970s.org/intro.asp Jeffrey Weeks, ''Gay Left - an Overview''. Gay Left Collective, 2007</ref>

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Jeffrey Weeks
Jeffrey Weeks (born 1945) is a British sociologist, historian and gay activist.

He joined the Gay Liberation Front in 1970, and was a founder member of Gay Left.[1]

His works include:

  • Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Quartet Books 1977; 2nd revised edition, with new chapter and bibliography, 1990
  • Between the Acts. Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967 (with Kevin Porter), Routledge, 1990; 2nd edition, with new Preface, Rivers Oram Press, 1998

References

  1. http://gayleft1970s.org/intro.asp Jeffrey Weeks, Gay Left - an Overview. Gay Left Collective, 2007