Jeffrey Weeks (born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.

Career

Weeks 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. Weeks is the author of several books, including Coming Out (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain, Sex, Politics and Society (Longman, 1981), Sexuality and Its Discontents (Routledge, 1985), and Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity (Rivers Oram Press, 1991). He has been on the editorial board of several journals including History Workshop Journal, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, the Journal of Homosexuality, and Victorian Studies. He was the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University (2003–2008). He was also the Director of the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute (SPUR) in 2005–2009. He was featured in the 2017 Pinc List of leading LGBTQ figures in Wales. Weeks was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to social science.

Authored books