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Bronski: Gay Media Monopoly
Commentary, February, 18 2001
Michael Bronski
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While the Bush administration is considering a possible reversal of the Microsoft antitrust case activists in the gay and lesbian community are debating their own looming monopoly problems.
Bronski: Feminism and Hollywood
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Michael Bronski
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Feminism and Hollywood
Bronski: Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Right
Commentary, October, 13 2000
Michael Bronski
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Imagine my appalled surprise when I discovered that I was quoted as a "radical advocate of same-sex marriage" in, of all places, this month's Commentary -- the last place where I expect to be noticed. Also Ð and this is a telling detail Ð I am not...
Bronski: Gay Movies
Zmag Article, October, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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There was a point in film history when almost any film with gay or lesbian characters or content was defined as transgressive. In the 1960s such films as Victim, The Children’s Hour and Compulsion, with their tastefully handled homosex...
Bronski: Violence and Gays in the Militaryby
Commentary, August, 05 2000
Michael Bronski
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It was, of course, to be expected. On July 17 an Army review concluded that no officers would be held responsible for the death of P.F.C..Barry Winchell who was murdered on July 5, 1999 by a fellow soldier at Fort Campbell, on the Tennessee-Kentuc...
Bronski: The Failure of Privacy
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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To most Americans, the right to privacy is a cornerstone in the grand constitutional structure, a right that guarantees a wide range of freedoms. We invoke it romantically in our self-righteous claims to freedom from social or legal intrusio...
Bronski: Bully Pulpit Indeed
Zmag Article, June, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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John Cardinal O’Connor, who died last month, was perhaps the most influential Catholic leader in America, known as much for his just-folks manner as his strongly worded moral leadership. People didn’t always agree with ...
Bronski: Dr. Laura: Moral Dominatrix
Zmag Article, May, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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It’s the voice that you can’t get out of your head—aggressive, accusatory, and grotesquely “girlish”—it emanates from the radio in a steady stream of unpleasantness: “What did you think you were...
Bronski: The Subversive Ms. Highsmith and The Talented Mr. Ripley
Zmag Article, April, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Isn’t that the cute Matt Damon playing a beguiling, decidedly dangerous, homosexual in Anthony Minghella’s film The Talented Mr. Ripley? Damon acts to perfection the role of Tom Ripley, the accomplished young American h...
Bronski: The Destiny of Biology
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Anne Fausto-Sterling is one of the leading theorists on science, sexuality, and gender. Trained as a molecular biologist, and a professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University, her research and writing covers a broad rage o...
Bronski: Saving Our Children, All Over Again
Commentary, February, 22 2000
Michael Bronski
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Quick. What is the worst threat to high school students across the United States today? Interpersonal violence among students? Guns in the hallways? Rampart drug and alcohol use? Shabbily low teaching standards that allow students to graduate bene...
Bronski: The State of Queer Film
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Nearly a decade ago it looked as though we were about to enter a Renaissance of gay and lesbian filmmaking. Unable to have access to mainstream movie making, independent filmmakers, writers, and producers began turning out a remarkable body ...
Bronski: Justice is Blind and Gagged
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski With a final flurry of media attention the trials of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson for the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard are now over. But in the quiet after such an emotional social and political storm, two t...
Bronski: Playing the Media
Commentary, December, 09 1999
Michael Bronski
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The first wave of the attack came swift and strong. Jonah Goldberg, in his column titled "When the Show is on the Other Foot" in the National Review wrote on October 25:
Bronski: Deliver Us From Reverends
Zmag Article, December, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski Across the country the headlines made everything look great. The Raleigh News and Observer blared "Falwell Apologizes to Gays" while the San Jose Mercury News trumpeted "Falwell Welcomes Gays." The Washingto...
Bronski: Wag the Dogma
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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Wag the Dogma
Bronski: Mary Daly vs. Boston College
Zmag Article, October, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski The message in all of the news and editorial coverage of Mary Daly’s newest battle in her ongoing war with Boston College (BC) to teach all-women classes is clear: The woman may be well intentioned, but wrong. The ...
Bronski: Gay Lit and the Pulitzer
Zmag Article, September, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
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Gay Lit and the Pulitzer
Bronski: GOP = Gay Old Party
Commentary, August, 27 1999
Michael Bronski
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It is no news that the "news" appearing in the mass media is often manufactured. No where was this clearer than a front page story in The New York Times of August 11, 1999 whose headline announced: "Gay Voters Finding G.O.P. Newly Receptive to Sup...
Bronski: The Exciting Sex Life of Gay Toys
Commentary, August, 13 1999
Michael Bronski
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It has become a commonplace that gay people are everywhere. We are everywhere - is even on bumper stickers. We are Martina and Greg, Rupert and Ian, Ellen and Will on Will and Grace.
