Greg Youmans is a writer, artist, and scholar. His essays about queer and experimental cinema have appeared in Camera Obscura, e-flux, Millennium Film Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogs. His book on the paradigm-shifting gay and lesbian documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group, 1977) was part of Arsenal Pulp Press’s Queer Film Classics series, and his writing has been supported by an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Youmans is also a videomaker whose work has been shown at the Tate Modern, Anthology Film Archives, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Forum, and numerous other museums, art galleries, and film festivals.

Youmans earned his PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an associate professor of English and film and media studies at Western Washington University.

A cv is available here (July 2025).