An “Academic Homosexual”: Ken Plummer and the National Deviancy Conference

Abstract

Like all scholars, Ken’s work was shaped at the intersection of his personal experiences and the complexities of his historical moment. And in the late 1960s and early 1970s, becoming an “academic homosexual” was no simple task. Both grassroots and academic scholars, whose publications would later be considered part of the gay canon, worked in obscurity.