Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.
Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History
We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.
You can marry naked and hanging upside down from a hot air balloon and share your marital bed with multiple strangers every day – none of that will change how the state endows your marriage with benefits it will not give to the unmarried.
Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.
Breaking News
Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011
In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.
Breaking News
Originally published in Windy City Times, April 15, 2011
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a project of the Heartland Alliance, recently released a mass civil rights complaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The complaint was filed with the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of Inspector General on April 13.
It persuasively argues that innocence is a shifting category, contingent on visible markers of race and class privilege.
