Research on gender and sexuality has a long history of utilizing case studies to inform the development of theory, the testing of hypotheses, and the illustration of paradigmatic cases. Speci¿cally in relation to non-heterosexual and/or non-gender normative people, the works of key ¿gures such as Freud (e.g., his 1920 paper The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman) and Gar¿nkel (e.g., his 1967 discussion of the case of Agnes in Studies in Ethnomethodology) have been centrally informed by the close and in-depth examination and discussion of single cases. Yet with the rise of quantitative methods and the accompanying drive towards large sample sizes and statistical testing, case study research to a large degree has fallen out of favour within the social sciences. Whilst more recently discourse analysts have examined the experiences of non-heterosexual and/or nongender normative people by utilizing case study approaches (e.g., Clarke 2006 on lesbian mother families, and Speer 2007 on the experiences of trans people), case studies are still signi¿cantly underused within research on non-heterosexual and/or non-gender normative communities. Flybvjerg (2006) suggests that this may at least in part be due to a number of incorrect assumptions about case study research, assumptions that fail to comprehend the truly unique contribution it can make to the empirical study of objects in the world.