‘Gentlemen’ s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual...
Not many people may know about the disputes between Lewis Terman–a man who helped created the testing of intelligence– and legendary sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. From stories of their personal and...
View Article‘The End of the Homosexual?’ by Dennis Altman
Longtime scholar and activist Dennis Altman begins his book talking about change. How and why “change” happens are points of conjecture, but one thing that Altman is all too sure of is that “change...
View Article‘Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire’ by Amy Villarejo
What we see on the horde of screens that comprise and dictate the majority of our daily actions are vital in composing not only our personal narrative but also society’s at large. The importance of one...
View Article‘The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay...
The first thing that came to mind after finishing Suzanna Walters’ excellent and original piece was a quote from longtime social critic Fran Lebowitz from the 2010 Martin Scorsese documentary Public...
View Article‘A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual...
There is much to be said about male effeminacy in today’s hyberbolized, over demanding, and preferentially specific sexual culture. Nguyen Tan Hoang’s A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity...
View Article‘There Goes the Gayborhood?’ by Amin Ghaziani
Proper punctuation is critical to understanding an author’s main point. While exclamatory sentences and hyperbole can often sell more books or bring about more attention to one’s topic, the use of a...
View Article‘Gay is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny’...
The metonymic adage “The pen is mightier than the sword” is all too fitting to the life and letters of gay rights pioneer Franklin Kameny. Never one for hiding his true feelings, Kameny’s tireless...
View Article‘Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with...
In a time where the battle for Civil Rights mimics the riots and deaths of the 1950s and and beyond, editors Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks gathered essays, lectures, and speeches written by...
View Article‘The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism’ by Adrian Brooks
The historical shifts felt in LGBTQI* activism in 2015 changed the lives of gay and lesbian individuals forever; however, with 2016 just beginning, many of the same problems persist. As more political...
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