Z Needs Your Help!
There was a point in film history when almost any film with gay or lesbian characters or content was defined as transgressive.…
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 It was, of course, to be expected. On July 17 an Army review concluded that no officers would be held…
To most Americans, the right to privacy is a cornerstone in the grand constitutional structure, a right that guarantees a wide range…
John Cardinal O’Connor, who died last month, was perhaps the most influential Catholic leader in America, known as much for his just-folks…
It’s the voice that you can’t get out of your head—aggressive, accusatory, and grotesquely “girlish”—it emanates from the radio in a steady…
Isn’t that the cute Matt Damon playing a beguiling, decidedly dangerous, homosexual in Anthony Minghella’s film The Talented Mr. Ripley? Damon acts…
Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of…
Michael Bronski Quick. What is the worst threat to high school students across the United States today? Interpersonal violence among students? Guns…
Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to…
Michael Bronski With a final flurry of media attention the trials of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson for the brutal murder of…