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Brett Krutzsch

Assistant Director, Center for Religion and Media, New York University
HRLI Grantee

Brett Krutzsch is the assistant director of New York University’s Center for Religion and Media and editor of its award-winning online magazine about religion and society, the Revealer. Dr. Krutzsch is a scholar of religion, sexuality, and LGBTQ politics in the United States. He is the author of the book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019), a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist for best LGBTQ+ nonfiction book of the year. A recipient of the Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award for scholarship in LGBTQ religious history, he is the coeditor, with Nora Rubel, of the forthcoming anthology Blessings beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family (Rutgers University Press, September 2024). His writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the Advocate, and the New York Times.

Featured Work: Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics

Upcoming Projects: Blessings beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family

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