Hauke Branding is part of the research training group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on the history (of theory) of gay liberation, critical theory and the history of social movements. Together with Lukas Betzler, he reedited a German edition of Guy Hocquenghem’s Das homosexuelle Begehren (2019) and co-edited a dossier on 1970s French gay liberation (2021). Currently, he is working on a history of ideas of the radical West German gay liberation movement.