Genny Beemyn

Genny Beemyn, Ph.D. is a historian, writer, and LGBTQ advocate. They are the director of Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts and co-chair of International Pronouns Day. Their books include A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C. (Routledge, 2014) and, with Sue Rankin, The Lives of Transgender People (Columbia University Press, 2011).

In 2019, Beemyn contributed to the collection Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity.

They began openly identifying as transgender in the late 1990s. They realized they identified as neither male nor female after reading Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues.

In 2015 Beemyn was given a Research and Assessment Award from the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals. In 2019, they were given the Lou Sullivan Torch Award for their work in scholarship and advocacy for transgender inclusion on college campuses.