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Blagojevich and gay politics

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 17, 2008

Illinois voters were stunned this past week by the news of Governor Rod Blagojevich being arrested on corruption charges. Along with his chief of staff John Harris, who has since resigned, Blagojevich was charged with, among other allegations, holding out President-elect Barack Obama’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat for a “pay-for-play” deal. The two men were both […]

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American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 18, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.

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Gay Marriage Ruined Everything

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 6, 2023

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“Forget Stonewall,” in The Gay and Lesbian Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 27, 2019

The point in forgetting Stonewall is to hold on to the much more difficult task of thinking about “event-ness” and history in more complicated ways.

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Polyamory, Gay Nonprofits, Cindy McCain, Mary Poppins, and More: Update, February 22

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 23, 2019

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Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

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From Queer To Gay: The Rise and Fall of Milo

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 28, 2017

Excerpt: What brought Milo down was not his queerness, which had always been flamboyantly on display and fetishised by the Right and the Left, but that he became, with the few short seconds of a video clip, irrevocably gay.

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Whose Gay History?: Review of Queer Clout

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2016

Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other.

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The Secret History of Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 25, 2015

Excerpt: When the secret history of gay marriage is finally written, it will reveal that gay marriage was foisted upon a community with few resources, held hostage by a wealthy few.

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The Gay Marriage Campaign Shamelessly Exploits Martin Luther King

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2015

As gay marriage becomes legal everywhere in the United States, marriage activists will eventually drop their pretenses at being inclusive.