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Category: Queer Perspectives
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Author Matt Kailey offers tips for parents on how to explain to their children the strange sight of heterosexual dancing on television.
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Amie Klempnauer Miller and her wise daughter have some words for the presidential candidate.
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A few moments from Michael Bronski’s A Queer History of the United States.
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Beacon Press is celebrating Pride Month with a giveaway. Enter to win an autographed copy of A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski, a book The Bay Area Reporter called “A monumental achievement.” Watch our trailer for A Queer History of the United States on YouTube
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We note two important figures in America’s queer history.
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What’s in a name? Nick Krieger explains his decision to have his old name in the title of his memoir.
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A selection of excerpts from new and backlist Beacon LGBT titles.
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The groundbreaking science fiction writer Joanna Russ died on April 29 at the age of 74. Stephen Burt discusses the importance of her work as a woman writing in a male-dominated field.
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On the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which is also the seventh anniversary of marriage equality in Massachusetts, Michael Bronski discusses the struggle for personal freedom for LGBT people.
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It’s been seven years since the first marriage licenses were handed out to same-sex couples in Massachusetts. Amie Klempnauer Miller, Nancy Polikoff, and Karen Kahn talk about what has changed and what challenges lie ahead.
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