Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

Prop 8 is a Distraction, or: NOW can we Dump Gay Marriage as a Cause?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 27, 2009

Why build up the power of the state to coerce people into marital relationships they don’t want just so that they can get the basics like healthcare?

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Interview with Mike Quigley, Cook County Commissioner, while running for Rahm Emanuel’s Congressional seat

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 25, 2009

Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley is one of the many candidates running for Rahm Emmanuel’s seat in Congress. He recently spoke to Windy City Times about his views on gay marriage, hate crimes legislation, the environment (one of his pet issues) and his thoughts about a school for LGBTQ youth.

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And the Winner Is…Gay Marriage! Or: Why Milk and Sean Penn’s Acceptance Speech Don’t Equal the Need for Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 23, 2009

The point is not whether Milk would have wanted to marry Smith. The point is that he lived in circumstances where it was possible for an openly gay and unmarried man to leave death benefits to his surviving partner.

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Interview with John Fritchey

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 18, 2009

Democrat John Fritchey is currently the 11th District State Representative. He’s also among the many candidates seeking to fill Rahm Emanuel’s recently vacated seat in Illinois’s Fifth Congressional District. Fritchey has a reputation as a progressive and is backed by a number of labor unions. He spoke to Windy City Times about his views on gay marriage, DADT, hate crimes legislation and his stand on labor-related issues. The primary will take place on March 3 and the general election on April 7.

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Equal Rep.com/Nation-Wide Campaign to Create a New Secretary of GLBT Affairs. Or, How To Silence Queers and Still Love the Idea

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 18, 2009

As for DADT, I’m not sure how you can be anti-war and anti-Republican war-mongering and also want to wage war.

Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Why the HELL Are Gays So Excited about Religion?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 16, 2009

It’s difficult to make any critique of marriage, gay or straight, in an environment where marriage is seen as the only and most natural form of “rights.”

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Is Homosexuality Genetic or Chosen? Does That Matter?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 15, 2008

Your gay union card, the grey metallic one, with an embossed pink triangle? Shredded.

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Let’s Change the Paradigms of Gay Organising

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 8, 2008

Why are we fighting for the specious rights granted by an outmoded institution?

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Who’s Middle Class Anyway?: Sarah Palin, Joe Sixpack, and Main Street

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 5, 2008

Excerpt: But even more fascinating to me is the extent to which we hold on to the idea that we’re all just part of a struggling middle class, despite mounting evidence that a lot of us are just plain poor.

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Barefoot and Pregnant in the White House: Sarah and Bristol Palin

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2008

Let’s not forget that a woman’s right to have an abortion has everything to do with citizenship and power and can’t be dismissed as irrelevant.