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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 ($).

Amy Spring and I examine 2020 U.S. Census data and find that segregation trends for same-sex households has continued to decline. “New Evidence From Census 2020 on the Residential Segregation of Same-Sex Households: A Research Note.”

From colleagues to coeditors and coauthors – I’m delighted to share a new publication with Seth Abrutyn: “Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim’s theory of disruptions via queer nightlife.” Durkheim goes to his favorite gay bar only to find that it’s closed. Now where does he go…? This article is open access.