Brett Krutzsch

He is the author of the 2019 book, Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics[1] from Oxford University Press.

[8] The book explores how LGBTQ activists used the deaths of Matthew Shepard, Harvey Milk, Tyler Clementi, Brandon Teena, F.C.

Martinez, campaigns like the It Gets Better Project, and national tragedies like the Pulse nightclub shooting for political purposes to promote assimilation.

[15][16][17][18][19] In 2019, Krutzsch was selected for the inaugural Sacred Writes public scholarship fellows program funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation.

[20] Along with Nora Rubel, Krutzsch is the co-editor of the book Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family, published by Rutgers University Press in 2024.