Hunter O'Hanian is a curator and former executive director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives and director of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.

Jonathan D. Katz is Associate Professor of Practice in the History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, curator of The First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago, and author of About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art (2024) and editor of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a Global Identity 1869-1939 (2025), both published by Monacelli.

Beth Saunders is curator and head of Special Collections at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and curator of Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher's Baltimore.

James Smalls is Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art.

Joseph Plaster is Curator in Public Humanities and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Rafael Alvarez is an author and screenwriter based in Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Theo Gordon is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York.