James Bennett is an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is author of ‘Rats and Revolutionaries’: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940 (2004), co-author (with David Betts) of Marriage Equality and Resurgent Prejudice in Australia (2026) and co-editor (with Rebecca Beirne) of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia & New Zealand (2011). He is a specialist in the histories of medicalizing and de-medicalizing homosexuality.