Luc Brants (1963) is an indepent researcher and writer. He defended his PhD-thesis on the history of Dutch extramural care for people with mental disabilities in 2004. He has since then worked on (the history of) marginalised groups and published among other things on sexual abuse of people with disabilities.
Recently (2017) he published a study on the history of the emancipation of gay and lesbian people in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands.