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Category: Gay Marriage

On Power Couples

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 15, 2015

Gay Marriage Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Kim Davis Didn’t Deserve to Go to Jail

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 12, 2015

We have forgotten that prison is no laughing matter, especially for queer people.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2015

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

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.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Larry Kramer, The Imitation Game, and the Gay Obsession With Exceptionalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 27, 2015

No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.

Gay Marriage Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Charles Manson and Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 18, 2014

“Seems oddly appropriate since marriage is a prison sentence.”

Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing

My Review of “The Marrying Kind?” Is in In These Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 13, 2014

No amount of fisting, fucking, fellatio, cunninglus or S/M…actually shifts the meaning of marriage within the state itself.

Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Review of “The Battle over Marriage” Is Just Out in the Chicago Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 18, 2013

She takes their claims at face value.

Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 4, 2013

Excerpt: It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice.