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I ’ve been having these flashbacks recently while I’ve been teaching. Not really acid flashbacks (well I guess they could be), but…
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.
S he is instantly recognizable as a camp icon. With her flouncing gingham dress, blond pigtails, obnoxious bangs, and disingenuously angelic voice,…
T his year was the fourth time I’ve taught “Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies” at Dartmouth College. The course…
W ell, it looks like the fight for same-sex marriage is really heating up. Not between marriage equality activists and their opponents,…
T he gay rights movement has hit a brick wall. Yes, we have same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. Yes, the Supreme Court overturned…
T here is a new trend in how gay and lesbian lawyers and legal scholars are fighting for gay rights. To a…
O n March 6 South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed a comprehensive bill that would enact a near-total ban on abortions. He…
F rom being physically harassed in my middle-class New Jersey Catholic high school in the mid-1960s to being assaulted in Boston’s outdoor…
I t’s official. With eight Oscar nominations—including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor— Brokeback Mountain is…
O n December 25, 2005 Dr. Charles Socarides died at the age of 83 in New York where he had lived and…