Kevin C. Quin is a PhD student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, where he is also pursuing a graduate minor in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. His research interests include 20 th century African American and LGBT history, political imagination, cultural production, and transnationalism. Kevin’s work has been generously supported by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries, and the McNair Scholars program at DePaul University. Follow him on Twitter @kevincquin.