Amin Ghaziani

Recently published in The Sociological Quarterly is a special issue that I have guest edited on queer nightlife. In my introduction, entitled The Sociology of Queer Nightlife, I blend arguments from the social sciences about “dirty work” with humanistic notions of “disidentification” as a survival strategy to amplify a distinctive disciplinary point of view. What theoretical opportunities arise from working on and against the conservative tendencies of sociology, neither abandoning queer nightlife for something perceived as more legitimate nor refusing entirely to engage with other sociologists? The special issue features 8 articles and a cross-disciplinary roundtable forum.

Long Live Queer Nightlife has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2025 Lammy Award for Best Book in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction! 1,339 titles were submitted this year, spanning 26 categories, evaluated by 80 judges over 6 months. See all the finalists here, and coverage of the awards and finalists by the CBC here.

As the flagship journal of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), I participated in a session at the 2025 ESS Annual Meeting that focused on publishing in general journals of the discipline. The organizers invited editors of our field’s top generalist journals as panelists: Andrew Fullerton from Social Problems, I represented Contexts, and Laurel Smith-Doerr from American Sociological Review. Our conversation was published at Sociological Forum. Open access and free to read/share. Find it here.

Queer nightlife spaces are rapidly disappearing. Want to know how to keep them alive? Check out my article in Maclean’s, Canada’s premier current affairs magazine, often compared with The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Newsweek. Read it here.

In my new article, co-authored with graduate student Andy Holmes, we show that LGBTQ+ people adopt multiple identity labels and adjust their usage relative to the interactional demands at hand. We call this outcome “situational fluidity.” The article is open access: free to read and share. Access it here.

For the 2024 Pride season, I published an opinion-editorial essay in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. In “Last Dance for Queer Nightlife?,” I share how nightlife is shifting toward an infinite horizon of intentional inclusion. Read it here ($).