Jeffrey Weeks (sociologist)

Jeffrey Weeks OBE is an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality. He is among the academics in the early period of gay men's studies in Britain that emerged from the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) which he joined in 1970 and the Gay Left of which he was a founding member. He has been described as "the most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s.”