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Reading through the media coverage of the Littleton, Colorado shootings one can’t help but be impressed by how skillfully the reporting shaped…
Michael Bronski
Michael Bronski is Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist, organizer, writer, publisher, editor, and independent scholar. He is the author of multiple books including: A Queer History of the United States for Young People; Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics; and You Can Tell Just by Looking and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People. He was awarded the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award for best LGBT book of 2010 by the American Library Association, as well as the Lambda Literary Award for the Best Non-Fiction Book of 2012. He currently edits the Queer Action / Queer Ideas series for Beacon Press.
Michael Bronski In the past 100 years Times Square has been the metaphoric center of American anxieties about sexuality. From the new…
Massachusetts News — made clear its concerns: "Will Pedophilia Be Next in Massachusetts Schools? Child Molestation is Being Normalized.’" On the second…
have been deemed newsworthy: On January 17 Kevin Tryals and Laaron Morris of Galveston TX. were found in a burning car on…
Bronski There is Susan Sarandon looking handsome, proud, intelligent, brave, powerful and dignified. Oh look, and there’s Julia Roberts looking beautiful, nervous,…
"stoke of the pen"– that the current administration’s infamous "don’t ask/ don’t tell" compromise has actually made the situation of gay men…
There has also been a explosion of Oscar Lite–a plethora of new "wit and wisdom" books that recycle every epigram, aphorism,…
Bronski Corpus Christi, Terrence McNally’s dramatic refiguring of the Passion with a queer Christ and a sincere message of tolerance for everyone,…
Gay Pride, Boston, June 21, 1977: It was a hot Saturday afternoon on Boston Common, and the crowd listening to speeches…
One of the most tiresome avenues of gay and lesbian film criticism has been the cataloguing and dismissing of "negative images…