McGreevey’s Ghosts
THE ISSUE OF THE CLOSET comes and goes in gay life. After lying dormant for at least a decade, it had a brief revival this summer when two Washington…More
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Did same-sex marriage doom Kerry?
IN THE 2004 presidential election, sixty percent of the voters said that they supported same-sex marriage or civil unions and 37 percent opposed any form of legal recognition for…More
Survey Says…
SOCIAL RESEARCH on GLBT people has begun to provide the kind of detailed knowledge base that’s been available for other minorities for many decades, so at last we can…More
The Lives of Lesbian Elders
The following excerpt is the Conclusion to a new book entitled The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Haworth Press), which describes the four authors’ research on…More
Found: 85,000 Black Gay Households
ANTI-GAY ACTIVISTS frequently claim that equal rights for gay and lesbian people are a threat to the civil rights of groups they deem “legitimate minorities,” including African-Americans. For example,…More
The Power of Data, the Price of Exclusion
LAST JUNE, a special issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) focused on suicide with the stated goal “to provide insights that might lead to successful prevention programs.”…More
The Sociology of Barebacking
THE QUESTION of whether sex “is worth dying for” was posed by Michel Foucault in his History of Sexuality and speaks directly to why, in the third decade of…More
In Praise of Partisanship
For the first time in the more than thirty years that I’ve been engaged in the political fight against homophobia, I am beginning to think that my political career might outlast the legal embodiment of this vicious prejudice. If this turns out to be the case, …
MoreGetting Us Where We Live
WHILE THE WORDS “we are everywhere” can be heard frequently at gay and lesbian political events, the 2000 United States Census provided the first empirical confirmation of this rallying cry. … In fact, these data can be used to open people’s minds.
MorePeace Activism and GLBT Rights
… Gay cultural critic Michael Bronski argues that the decision by many GLBT groups to take public positions both for and against the [Iraq] war is a sign of the movement’s maturity. After two-plus decades of focusing on gay issues and identity, he argues, the community’s “new willingness to take policy stands on national issues outside a narrowly prescribed gay realm” suggests “a return to an earlier mode of organizing … that places gay rights within a broader politics.”
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