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Bronski: Is the Gay Rights Movement Doomed to Fail?
Zmag Article, July, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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T he gay rights movement has hit a brick wall. Yes, we have same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. Yes, the Supreme Court overturned state anti-sodomy laws. Yes, gay characters are all over mainstream...
Bronski: Wayne Healy v. Luis Spencer
Zmag Article, June, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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Wayne Healy v. Luis Spencer
Bronski: Abortion Rights and Gay Rights
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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O n March 6 South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed a comprehensive bill that would enact a near-total ban on abortions. He described the bill as a “direct frontal assault” on Ro...
Popkin: The Personal is Political
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
Anna Popkin
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This essay is from an edited collection titled They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee: 7 Radicals Remember the 60s, edited by Dick Cluster (South End Press, 1979). The essays are all writ...
Madre: 'Honor Crimes'
Znet Article, April, 09 2006
Madre
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Human rights abuses committed against women -- most often by male relatives -- in the name of "family honor" are called "honor crimes." They include battery, torture, mutilation, rape, forced marriage, imprisonment within the home, and even murder...
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...
Ireland: THE POPE'S NEW GRAND INQUISITOR
Znet Article, March, 26 2006
Doug Ireland
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As I read the list of new cardinals named yesterday by Pope Ratzinger (a.k.a. Benedict XVI), it struck me that this was the same-old, same-old -- another...
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...
Rowbotham: Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Sheila Rowbotham
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The Z Classics series is intended to chronicle the many contributions activsts and scholars have made to current inclusive revolutionary theory, vision, and strategy. Sheila Rowbotham's book, Woman's Consiousness, Man's World, excerpted here, was ...
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...
Bonfiglio: USA PATRIOT Act
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Olga Bonfiglio
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R ecent revelations about domestic spying have startled a U.S. public that thought it had adequate safeguards to protect its privacy. But those who have been observing the Bush administration ...
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...
Harris: Women, Gays, and Basketball
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Mark t. Harris
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T he announcement by WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes that she’s gay was greeted by the nation’s sports commentators mostly with an accepting shrug. Swoopes can be who she is and be open a...
Chew: Why the War Is Sexist
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
Huibin amee Chew
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R efusing to be silenced as a military parent, Cindy Sheehan’s voice lent new urgency to stopping the war in Iraq. She has been likened to a Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. Both widely r...
Chaudhry: Babes in BushWorld
Znet Article, October, 29 2005
Lakshmi Chaudhry
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Just before the Republican National Convention came to town in 2004, New York newspapers were buzzing with rumors that the city's high-priced prostitutes and strippers were gea...
Ireland: AFGHAN WOMEN'S MAG EDITOR JAILED FOR ARTICLES AGAINST STONING TO DEATH AND LASHING
Znet Article, October, 24 2005
Doug Ireland
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The editor of a respected women's magazine in Afghanistan has been sentenced to two years in jail for "blasphemy" after the judge in the case was ordered to imprison the editor by the U...
Bader: The Flores Case
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Eleanor j. Bader
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I n the early 1970s Peggy Rom- berg, CEO of the Women Health and Family Planning Association of Texas, heard about women who threw themselves down stairs, douched with lye, and drank bottles of whiskey to induce a misc...
Ireland: Rape Charges?
Znet Article, August, 13 2005
Doug Ireland
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As worldwide protests are taking place against the death penalty and criminalization of homosexuality in Iran in the wake of the hanging of two teenage males in the Iranian city of Mashad, new information is coming in from that country casting dou...
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...
Nygaard: Sex, Drugs, and Teens
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Jeff Nygaard
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P ublic policies relating to things like sex, drugs, crime, and death are often lumped together under the term “morality politics.” To enter the realm of morality politics, an issue must touch on controvers...
