Category: Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 7, 2013

We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions.

Illinois’ Gay Marriage Disaster: An Autopsy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 19, 2013

Illinois has the highest foreclosure rate in the country in 2012, and the highest unemployment rate. Marriage can’t prevent either.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

HRC and the Illusion of a Grassroots Movement

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 29, 2013

But marriage, as represented by the giant equal sign, is seen as the silver bullet, despite the fact that gay marriage will help make rich gays and lesbians a lot richer and leave the rest of us behind.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Gay Marriage’s Economic Underside

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 26, 2013

Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cause

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 26, 2013

There has never been a left case for gay marriage.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Do We Have to Be “Equal”?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 5, 2012

Excerpt: But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.

Vintage Family - Family, Parents, Vintage, Children

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

Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 2, 2012

Excerpt: You want health care but not marriage or commitment? Tough titties. Get married or die.

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

Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 23, 2012

Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.

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

Fuck Love

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2011

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Make Marriage Work Like Disappearing Ink: Mexico Contemplates Two-year Marital Contracts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2011

Imagine that: a world where marriage is not some sacrosanct institution which you tie yourself to in order to survive.