Daniel Hurewitz is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of Stepping Out: Nine Walks through New York's Gay and Lesbian Past. As a UCLA graduate student, he began investigating the start of American gay politics - a movement which, despite all assumptions, actually began in Los Angeles. That investigation lead him to the history of a larger bohemian world that existed in Los Angeles in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The story of that world is the heart of his recent book, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Author Mike Davis wrote,  "Hurewitz truly opens Los Angeles' closet door in this stunning history of the 'Red Hills' above Silver Lake where radical countercultures dreamed, cavorted, and agitated for a better world."

Stuart Timmons writes about Los Angeles, environmental issues, and gay politics, often informed by his thirty years of local activism.  He is the author of The Trouble With Harry Hay:  Founder of the Modern Gay Movement, a biography of one of the city's most influential radicals.  Most recently, with Lillian Faderman, he co- authored Gay L.A.:  A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics and Lipstick Lesbians, which covers local gay life from 1880 to 2005.  Both books of Stuart’s books have been nominated for Lambda Literary Awards.

William Deverell is a professor of history at USC, where he specializes in the history of California and the American West and directs a scholarly institute that collaborates with the Huntington Library in Pasadena. He is the author several books including  Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past.