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Category: Queer Perspectives
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A link roundup of World AIDS day articles and blog posts.
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Lillian Rubin dissects the many factors that contributed to the passage of Proposition 8, a gay marriage ban, in California.
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In case you haven’t heard, Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is an “average Alaskan hockey mom.” For anyone who didn’t grow up on skates, like I did, it’s a relatively new colloquial term that plays off of the term “soccer moms,” a moniker used extensively in the 1996 election season to neatly describe the…
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The literary world lost two vital voices last week: author David Foster Wallace and poet/poetry blogger Reginald Shepherd. Kottke has assembled a comprehensive links list for DFW memorials, although you could spend the day trolling through the thousands of blog posts reacting to his death. You can read Reginald Shepherd’s final poem, “God-With-Us,” on his…
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East German shot putter Heidi Krieger thought she was taking vitamins, but later discovered, as her body began to masculinize, that she was being given the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol, a drug that, according to the article, “changed a woman into a man.” As Krieger continued on the steroids, she noted changes not only in her…
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Equality is a core value in Massachusetts. More than two weeks have passed since our Massachusetts borders fell to the further expansion of equality. When Governor Deval Patrick signed the repeal of the 1913 law that prohibited out-of-state same-sex couples from coming to our state to marry, our state borders became more permeable and we…
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Another homosexual brouhaha is brewing. Psychologist Trayce L. Hansen has reviewed nine studies that examined the sexual orientation of children raised by same-sex parents and has concluded that children raised by same-sex parents “have a 4 to 10 times greater likelihood of developing a non-heterosexual preference than other children.”
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For Pride Month, Beacon Broadside invited Pat Griffin, director of It Takes A Team! Education Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in Sport, to discuss the issue of homophobia in sports. Dr. Griffin is the author of Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports and co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social…
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There have been gay poets—or, at least (if you prefer historical accuracy) poets who presented same-sex erotic passion—for as long as poetry has been written down; maybe longer. Think of Sappho, whose name has referred for centuries both to the idea of eros between women and to the ancient idea of lyric itself: think of…
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