This t-shirt proves that gay marriage supporters aren’t afraid to exploit other struggles in an effort to legitimize themselves as the most marginalized.
We are explicitly being asked to look at their faces very, very closely and make sure they have fulfilled all our cultural expectations.
Even programs like Amy Goodman’s are going along with this gay conservatism around war and DADT and not questioning the contradictions that they, surely, discern.
By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out.
“I’m really tired of the emphasis on the closet…”
“Queer Film and Media Pedagogy: A Roundtable with Michael Bronski, Terri Ginsberg, Roy Grundmann, Kara Keeling, Liora Moriel, Yasmin Nair, and Kirsten Moana Thompson.”
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12(1): 117-134 (2006); DOI:10.1215/10642684-12-1-117
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Our sentimentality about the “working class” allows us to forget the depth of the inequality we face.
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“a much larger story of corruption, bribery, organized crime and the political machinery of Mayor Daley.”
John D’Emilio, professor of gay history and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) , presented his latest research on Chicago’s gay history February 9 at the university’s Institute for the Humanities, where he currently holds a yearlong fellowship. Speaking to a packed room, D’Emilio gave a speech provocatively titled “Rethinking Queer History. Or, Richard Nixon, Gay Liberationist.”
She is acutely aware of how the term “safe space” translates differently for women, depending on their ethnic and racial background, and that white women have historically been reluctant to make it out to what might be defined as a “Black space.”