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One of the best indicators that a hot-button political issue has maxed out its news potential is when diversionary side-shows begin to…
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.
It was a just another hot, sticky night toward the end of June. The streets of Greenwich Village were filled with cruising…
It was a just another hot city night in late June. The streets of Greenwich Village were filled with cruising queens, displaced…
I have never wanted to go to Las Vegas, ever. The entire concept of it—people losing their money in unbridled gambling, hideous…
"Oh my God. This was not an easy film to make. First off, I have to thank Cleve Jones and Anne…
There are historical moments when massive numbers of deaths—the centuries-long genocide of Native peoples in America, the deaths of the Middle Passage…
Prop 8 demos— photo by Ellen Shub This past election saw a series of interesting cultural clashes and collisions over the…
Culture Wars have always been a staple of American politics, it’s just that we’ve only been labeling them for the last two…
Tracing the circuitous, totally illogical byways of politics on popular culture and vice versa can not only be frustrating but infuriating. Take,…
One of the most amazing cultural responses to the war against Iraq has been the plethora of documentary and feature films produced…