Jeffrey Weeks OBE (born 1945, in Rhondda, Wales) is a gay activist and an historian and sociologist specialising in work on sexuality.
[1] Weeks is the author of several books, including Coming Out (Quartet, 1977), a study of the history of homosexual politics in Britain,[2] Sex, Politics and Society (Longman, 1981), Sexuality and Its Discontents (Routledge, 1985), and Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity (Rivers Oram Press, 1991).
He was the Executive Dean of Arts and Human Sciences at London South Bank University (2003–2008).
He was also the Director of the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute (SPUR) in 2005–2009.
[3] Weeks was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to social science.