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Apparently it’s the time of the year to give talks about the State of the Union, State of the State, and State…
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.
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At first the case seemed simple. A student in a high school English class said, out loud, “Take all the fucking…
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The lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGBT) movement has been fighting for 50-plus years to challenge the oppression of queer people and make…
Now that the dust has cleared from the press storm over the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows it may…
Having just come back from the 2007 Z Media Institute where I taught classes on Queer Theory, Queer Organizing, and Pop Culture,…
Zack Snyder’s idiotic sword and sandal trifle 300 is notable on three accounts. The first are the relatively cool computer generated images…
T here are no second acts in American life” noted F. Scott Fitzgerald, but obviously he was wrong. Fitzgerald was writing about…