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Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism

Excerpt: ‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.”

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Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex

We are being screwed, my friends, and not in a good way.

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Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory

Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books.

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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men

It’s not the fag hag who’s dead—it’s the fag.

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Craig Seymour’s All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C

Sex, it turns out, says nothing about sexuality. 

All I Could Bare: : My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. by [Seymour, Craig]
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An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews

We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it.

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Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”

Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by [Mathews, Dan]
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.”

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Jacqueline Taylor’s Waiting for the Call: From Preacher’s Daughter to Lesbian Mom

The arc of the story is set in the title itself.

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Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make

When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh.