This special issue of GLQ celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's groundbreaking essay, Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality. Credited with inaugurating the contemporary field of sexuality studies, Rubin's essay calls for an autonomous theory and politics specific to sexuality. Looking at the intellectual and political gains of sexual freedom movements over the past two decades, Rethinking Sex explores the critical and activist afterlife of the controversial 1982 Barnard College Conference on Sexuality, where Rubin...