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

Rage, or The Lack Thereof

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Rage has dissipated into conciliation and a call for the status quo.


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Proof: The Gay Marriage Movement Is Draining Resources from Queer Activism

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If we are to use any seafaring metaphors, it might be best to describe gay marriage as the Titanic, about to hit an iceberg and take everyone down with her.


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Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Prop 8 is a Distraction, or: NOW can we Dump Gay Marriage as a Cause?

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Why build up the power of the state to coerce people into marital relationships they don’t want just so that they can get the basics like healthcare?


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

“Yasmin Nair: Eat This!” Or: How to Leave Comments Without Going up In Flames

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The classic method used to silence a woman: question her mental health and then drag her through what you fondly imagine is the mud of her sex life.


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Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Daley double: Scholar talks local LGBTQ history

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Chicago’s infamous machine politics is as much the stuff of lore as a reality of Chicago life.  Richard J. Daley, most associated with the machine, was mayor from 1955 to 1976.  His son, Richard M. Daley, has been mayor from 1989 to the present.  Except for a period of 13 years in the interim, there […]


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Gays tackle Burris pick

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Governor Rod Blagojevich recently announced that he was appointing Roland Burris to the Senate seat previously occupied by President-elect Barack Obama.  The move has generated controversy, censure and ridicule.  The governor is being decried for equal parts hubris and arrogance, while Burris has been criticized for participating in what many claim is an unethical move.


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Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Politics Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Equal Rep.com/Nation-Wide Campaign to Create a New Secretary of GLBT Affairs. Or, How To Silence Queers and Still Love the Idea

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As for DADT, I’m not sure how you can be anti-war and anti-Republican war-mongering and also want to wage war.


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Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Why the HELL Are Gays So Excited about Religion?

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It’s difficult to make any critique of marriage, gay or straight, in an environment where marriage is seen as the only and most natural form of “rights.”


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Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Blagojevich and gay politics

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Illinois voters were stunned this past week by the news of Governor Rod Blagojevich being arrested on corruption charges.  Along with his chief of staff John Harris, who has since resigned, Blagojevich was charged with, among other allegations, holding out President-elect Barack Obama’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat for a “pay-for-play” deal.  The two men were both […]


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

Let’s Change the Paradigms of Gay Organising

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Why are we fighting for the specious rights granted by an outmoded institution?


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