Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On Power Couples

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 15, 2015

Power couples are scum multiplied into two.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Matt Damon and the Case against Coming Out

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2015

It’s not that queerness has to be resisted or kept a mystery, but that heterosexuality is always a work in progress.

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.

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Stop Fetishising Youth Organisers

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2015

Why assume that age gives either wisdom to the old or energy to the young?

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.

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

We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards An Anti-Memoir

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 24, 2015

Excerpt: There was an odd comfort in being a stranger.

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

Your Sex Is Not Radical

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 28, 2015

Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extet to which you fuck up capitalism.

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.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Jim Oleson, partner of historian John D’Emilio, dies

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 4, 2015

Jim Oleson, 77, a longtime Chicago resident and partner of gay historian John D’Emilio, died at their home on April 4, surrounded by loved ones. He had severely weakened lungs and heart, and had recently begun home hospice care.

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.