Michael Moon, currently a Professor of English at Johns Hopkins, emerged over the past fifteen years as a pioneering scholar in the field of Queer Theory and American Literature and Studies. Moon (as his JHU profile states) is the author of A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (1998) and Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (1991), and the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Leaves of Grass and of several essay-collections in the fields of Queer Theory and American Studies. His primary research focuses on late-19th and early-20th Century American literature and culture, including film, especially in relation to the history and theory of sexuality and of mass culture.

A cultural producer and commentator, Jim Provenzano's writing credits include two novels, four plays, 20 short stories, and more than 800 news and arts articles. PINS, his debut novel about gay high school wrestlers, was published in 1999 and hailed as by Felice Picano and Michael Lowenthal as “prescient” and “heartfelt.” His 2002 commissioned stage adaptation of PINS premiered at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre and received a Bay Area Critics Award. His second novel, Monkey Suits, was published in 2003. Moreover, since 1996, Provenzano's column, "Sports Complex," features interviews with hundreds of GLBT athletes, ranging from novices to former Olympians; photos and features on the Gay Games; and commentary about the ongoing struggle for gay athletes in professional and collegiate sports.