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Zmag Article Bronski: When Is a Hate Crime Not a Hate Crime?

Zmag Article, April, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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F rom being physically harassed in my middle-class New Jersey Catholic high school in the mid-1960s to being assaulted in Boston’s outdoor cruising areas, I’ve seen a lot of anti-gay ha...

Zmag Article Bronski: Brokeback Mountain

Zmag Article, March, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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I t’s official. With eight Oscar nominations—including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor— Brokeback Mountain is this y...

Zmag Article Bronski: Analysis This

Zmag Article, February, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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O n December 25, 2005 Dr. Charles Socarides died at the age of 83 in New York where he had lived and worked as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Socarides had been nationally famous in the 1960s, a...

Zmag Article Bronski: Wedding Bell Blues

Zmag Article, January, 01 2006 Michael Bronski
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I t looks like same-sex marriage is here to stay. It’s even beginning to look downright patriotic. This past Fourth of July, Cambridge Massachusetts saw one of its most prominent lesbian coup...

Zmag Article Bronski: No Hope for the Pope

Zmag Article, July, 01 2005 Michael Bronski
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I t should have come as no surprise, but somehow liberal Catholics in the U.S. were caught off guard when the conservative Cardinal John Ratzinger became Benedict XVI. With this new hardline Pope in place, U.S. liberal...

Zmag Article Bronski: Not So GLAAD Anymore

Zmag Article, May, 01 2005 Michael Bronski
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O n January 23, 2005 Joan Garry, the executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates Against Defamation (GLAAD), announced that she will be leaving her post after an eight year tenure. Garry—who came to GLAAD aft...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Problem With Martyrs

Zmag Article, January, 01 2005 Michael Bronski
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T he moment ABC’s “20/20” announced it would air an hour-long show on the “real facts” behind the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder, controversies began to swirl. Without having seen the program, ...

Zmag Article Bronski: Sermonizing on the Sex Lives of Animals

Zmag Article, May, 01 2004 Michael Bronski
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I had a moment of confusion recently as I packed for a trip to New Orleans to debate the issue of same-sex marriage. I would be taking the side in favor of same-sex marriage even though I had a great ...

Zmag Article Bronski: Carnival As Organizing

Zmag Article, April, 01 2004 Michael Bronski
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A decade ago the idea of seriously organizing for gay marriage—or, more correctly stated, same-sex marriage—was barely imaginable. The idea of actually getting any place with it was unthinkable. ...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Truth About Reagan And AIDS

Zmag Article, January, 01 2004 Michael Bronski
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T he last two months I’ve been teaching a course entitled “Plagues and Politics: The Impact of AIDS on U.S. Culture.” So when the political flap over the historic accuracy of &ldq...

Zmag Article Bronski: When Nathaniel Met Herman: Lost Hawthorne memoir is published

Zmag Article, December, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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Americans love happy endings. Yet in the world of great American literature, there are so very few. That’s so not only in novels—Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, The Portrait of a Lady, An Amer...

Zmag Article Bronski: Not So Fast Times at Queermont High

Zmag Article, November, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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At a weekly news briefing on June 28, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Harvey Milk School, which operated for nearly 20 years as a 2-room special program for queer kids, would become...

Zmag Article Bronski: Queering Harry Potter

Zmag Article, September, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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T he publication of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this summer marks another media triumph for author J.K. Rowling and her boy wizard. More than 200 mill...

Zmag Article Bronski: The Politics of Gay Pulp Fiction

Zmag Article, June, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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W hen my editor at St. Martin’s Press asked me to do an anthology of pre-Stonewall gay male fiction, it seemed like an easy deal: how much could there be? Everyone knew—or at least I th...

Zmag Article Bronski: Supporting the Troops A code word for “support the war”

Zmag Article, May, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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Supporting the Troops A code word for “support the war”

Zmag Article Bronski: The Other Matthew

Zmag Article, April, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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T he U.S. Supreme Court will revisit the question of whether sodomy laws should remain legal this term when it takes up the case of Lawrence and Garner v. Texas . That case involv...

Zmag Article Bronski: Gays & the Anti-War Movement

Zmag Article, March, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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I f there is any doubt left that a potential war with Iraq is what’s on everyone’s mind, it was erased with the opening joke of a recent episode of “Will and Grace.” After K...

Zmag Article Bronski: Privacy Doesn’t Promote Safety

Zmag Article, February, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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W hat did two gay men arrested in Texas in 1998 for sodomy have to do with a United Nations weapons inspector who engages in sadomasochistic sex? A lot, it turns out. John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron...

Znet Article Bronski: War and Gays

Znet Article, February, 01 2003 Michael Bronski
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War and Gays

Zmag Article Bronski: The Real (Radical) Harry Hay

Zmag Article, December, 01 2002 Michael Bronski
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Even in the glow of its conservatism, America—which was formed via revolution, after all—has always taken a certain pride in its radicals. Even so, America prefers to remember its history-makers ...

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