Lawrence D. Mass, M.D., is a retired specialist in addiction medicine and a cofounder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis. The first person to write about AIDS in the U.S. press, he is the author of Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution, Volume 1, and Homosexuality as Behavior and Identity: Dialogues of The Sexual Revolution, Volume 2. He is also the author-editor of an anthology, We Must Love One Another Or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer, and the author of a memoir, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America. The sequel to that memoir is the collection On the Future of Wagnerism: Art, Intoxication, Addiction, Codependence and Recovery.

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Adam Sacks is a cultural historian of modern Europe and a part-time classical music reviewer. He writes on the politics of memory, public history, and cultural interpretation and criticism.