Gust A. Yep (Ph.D., M.A.. & B.A., University of Southern California) is Professor of Speech & Communication Studies and Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. His teaching and research interests include critical intercultural communication, queer theory, communication and gender, media and popular culture, health communication, field research methods, and communication and sexualities. Yep co-authored Privacy and Disclosure of HIV in Interpersonal Relationships (Erlbaum, 2003), which was nominated for the 2004 International Communication Association Book of the Year Award.