Tom Sapsford is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Boston College. Tom's research interests include performance, gender, and sexuality in both ancient Greek and Roman contexts with a specialization in imperial Latin verse. His first book, Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, explored a figure called the kinaidos/cinaedus, who is known in antiquity for his outrageous gender performance and sexuality as well as for his distinctive style of song and dance. Sapsford is currently working on a new book project, provisionally entitled Classics and the Gay Counterculture, that looks at how a group of writers, artists, and activists from the 1950s onward used Greco-Roman culture in their work when facing criminalization, liberation in the wake of the Stonewall riots, the AIDS epidemic, and its aftermath.