Taking On Dr. Laura and The Times
What has changed during glaad’s history is not its strategy but its tactics. The group has not abandoned the tactics of the late 1980’s and early 90’s but instead has added tools to its activist arsenal.
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An Ancient Passion Stirs in India
ON A HOT NIGHT in April 2005, I walked with Kasim Mehedi, a worker for an AIDS outreach organization, through a rusty iron gate into the darkness of Hazrat Begum Park in the center of the city of Lucknow, India. During the day, the park is a popular tourist destination where visitors view two ornate mausoleums built in honor of Nawab Sa’adat Ali Khan … At night, however, the park becomes a shadowy demimonde where drug addicts, prostitutes, homosexuals, and others rejected by polite Lucknow society congregate.
MoreThis Critical Moment
FROM THE STANDPOINT of GLBT rights, it now seems likely—although by no
means certain—that 2008 will be the year in which the political system
caught up to the country. I do not always subscribe to the view that
the public is ahead of the politicians in terms of enlightenment, but
on the question of protecting people against discrimination based on
sexual orientation or gender identity, the voters have been ahead of
the politicians.
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Lives in Art: Isherwood and Bachardy
IT HAPPENED on a typical day in sun-drenched Southern California in the
early 1950’s. Two men met on the “queer” side of Will Rogers Beach in
Santa Monica….
MoreThe Outness of Rauschenberg’s Art
ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS of the 20th century, Robert Rauschenberg, died on May 12, 2008, at the age of 82. Protean and prolific, Rauschenberg was arguably the most significant artist-inventor in the history of American art
MoreIs Barack Obama the Real Deal?
… we in the GLBT community, as with American voters in general, are as energized as we’ve been in recent memory. It remains to be seen whether Barack Obama will become the truly enlightened leader he seems to be. But … I am confident that he will become a more perfect candidate insofar as gay rights are concerned- a powerful straight ally who stands with us, rather than against us, …
MoreHIV: The Forgotten Election Issue
NINETY-SEVEN THOUSAND, five hundred seventy-seven gay men-that’s how many “men who have sex with men” were newly diagnosed with HIV in the U.S. from 2001 to 2006. … More than 100,000 gay and bisexual men. The AIDS crisis never ended. In fact, it’s getting worse again.
MoreAll Eyes on California this November
[Sarah] Reece, the state field director of Equality for All, the organization coordinating the California campaign to defend the newly won right for same-sex couples to marry, is hardly a household name. Yet the success of her behind-the-scenes efforts, and those of others working with her, to organize at the grassroots level could be the key to defeating a ballot initiative that would make it unconstitutional in California for same-sex couples to marry.
MoreTaking the ‘Cure’ at Harvard in the 50’s
On June 5, at its annual dinner, the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus presented its Founding Father Award to historian Martin Duberman, who was introduced by his former student Tim McCarthy, now a history lecturer at Harvard. What follows is a transcript of this introduction and Martin Duberman’s remarks, which he offered without notes.
MoreThe Well at 80: Hasn’t Run Dry Yet
EIGHTY YEARS AGO, The Well of Loneliness was condemned by the English
courts as an obscene libel and “burned in the King’s furnace.” The book
was indicted and censored solely because of its lesbian theme, for its
prose has no spice or sleaze at all. Nothing very sexy goes on in it.
“She kissed her full on the lips” and “That night they were not
divided” are as hot as its descriptions of lesbian lovemaking get.
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