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. 

Delighted to announce my new publication in Mediapolis, an online and open-access journal about cities and culture. In “Emplaced Bars and Episodic Events,” I reflect on new nightlife forms. The article is part of a special issue on “New Directions in Queer Nightlife,” co-edited by Johan Andersson and Jamie Hakim.

My graduate student Tori and I advance an interactional framework for studying intersectional identities: “Retheorizing Intersectional Identities with the Study of Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants.”

I had the pleasure of speaking on NPR‘s Marketplace Morning Report, a program heard by 10 million weekly listeners across the United States. Sabri Ben-Achour is an excellent interviewer, who cut to the core of the issues in our sharp, 5 minute conversation. Listen to us chat about cultural and economic changes in queer nightlife.

The Nation reviewed my book! Daniel Felsenthal writes, “The book feels like a satellite image of London at night, with far-flung parties gleaming mostly on the edges, bright nodes in a darkened expanse. Ghaziani renders a complex picture of how going out as a queer person is changing; his approach to the topic, at once intimate and meticulous, ultimately enables his own perspective to shine through. Refreshingly, Long Live Queer Nightlife refuses anguish—Ghaziani’s jubilation at the emergence of the new outweighs his sorrow at the molting of the old.”

The New York Times reviewed my book! “Ghaziani shines as an academic,” they say. Here’s more: “The sociologist Amin Ghaziani wants to turn a funeral into a party. . . . [I]n Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani makes the case that, though the shuttering of gay bars is sad, it prompted a renaissance for club nights, alternative dance spaces championed by people of color and gender-nonconforming people. Unlike the stationary gay bar that caters to the white gay man, these ticketed events are nomadic and inclusive, often popping up in warehouses on the industrial outskirts of sleepless cities. Save your tears, because queer nightlife is alive and well. In fact, it’s even better than ever, having evolved into a more progressive, sophisticated form.”

At long last, pre-orders of Long Live Queer Nightlife are now available directly through Princeton in hardback, as an ebook, and audiobook, featuring Amin El Gamal, the first openly queer Muslim actor to play a lead role in a television series (Prison Break).

A pre-publication review of Long Live Queer Nightlife just dropped. LJ gave the book a starred distinction: “An accessible, absorbing look into an evolving form of queer culture, written by a brilliant sociologist.”

Amin & Amin: a doppelganger duo! My new book with Princeton, Long Live Queer Nightlife, will be narrated by Amin El Gamal (he/they), best known for his role in Prison Break, making him the first openly queer Muslim actor to play a leading role on television.

Page proofs for my new book, Long Live Queer Nightlife (Princeton), have arrived. How did the global closure of gay bars revolutionize underground nightlife scenes? The book comes out March 2024. Sign up with Princeton to be notified when preorders are available. See you on the dancefloor!