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.
“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”
It persuasively argues that innocence is a shifting category, contingent on visible markers of race and class privilege.
“Contrary to what some people believe, it is not just conservative heterosexual institutions that criticize the gay-marriage movement. Although their reasoning is different, queer activists also have their criticisms.”
Ryan Conrad and I unveiled the first Against Equality book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, at my beloved Bezazian branch of the Chicago Public Library. Andrew Davis, my longtime editor at Windy City Times generously covered the event. We had about 30 people in attendance, and could not have been more thrilled with the conversation.
A little-known fact: Ryan and I have been working on the book for over a year, but this was the first time we met in person.
You can read the article here. Image by Andrew Davis.