| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Bronski: Unholy Influence: Sex Scandals and Political Power
Commentary, March, 16 2002
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
It is not news that the Roman Catholic Church has a sex problem. It isn't easy promoting a pre-modern sexual morality in the postmodern world. On topics such as masturbation, birth control, oral sex, premarital sex, reproductive technologies, abor...
Bronski: Gays of Our Lives
Commentary, January, 17 2002
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
There are so many things wrong with this story.
Bronski: Gay Rights/ Human Rights: An Interview with Surina Khan
Commentary, November, 13 2001
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
As a native of Pakistan working full-time in the field of human rights, Surina Khan, executive director of the San Francisco-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), has a lot to say about America's war on terrorism.
Bronski: The Problem of Gay Soldiers...
Commentary, October, 06 2001
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Over the past week I have received, and continue to receive, dozens of e-mails relating to gay politics and lives and the Bush's administration's response to the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11.
Bronski: Prescription for Sex Ignored
Commentary, July, 30 2001
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
It can't be easy being the Surgeon General. Well, at least not when you choose to talk about sex. After months of what appears to contentious infighting within and with the Bush Administration Dr. David Satcher has finally released Ð or been allow...
Bronski: Gay Media Monopoly
Commentary, February, 18 2001
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
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: Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Right
Commentary, October, 13 2000
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
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: Violence and Gays in the Militaryby
Commentary, August, 05 2000
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
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: Saving Our Children, All Over Again
Commentary, February, 22 2000
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
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: Playing the Media
Commentary, December, 09 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
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: GOP = Gay Old Party
Commentary, August, 27 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
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
Bronski's ZSpace page
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.
Bronski: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Commentary, July, 01 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
The ferocity of the New York City police assault against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in the summer of 1977 was so striking that, even in the current context of urban police brutality, it became emblematic of the sustained, sanctioned violence o...
Bronski: Liberation by Accumulation
Commentary, May, 27 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
I hardly ever drink beer, being a cheap red wine and bourbon sort of guy, so I was startled last week when I received more then a dozen e-mail (many from lesbian and gay activists use work I respect) urging me call the Anheuser-Busch company and v...
Bronski: High School Hell
Commentary, May, 06 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Reading through the media coverage of the Littleton, Colorado shootings one can't help but be impressed by how skillfully the reporting shaped the story to fit the preconceived anxieties and biases of a broad readership.
Bronski: Writing and Thinking Amidst Hostile Intentions
Commentary, April, 27 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Most every writer likes to see her or his work quoted and cited. It gives you, if nothing else, the idea that at least someone somewhere reads what you write and publish.
Bronski: Harassment
Commentary, April, 09 1999
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Several weeks ago I was walking with my lover in a quiet neighborhood in Cambridge Mass, on our way to a late afternoon movie. We were holding hands in an offhanded sort of way, chatting together when a group of young teens sitting on a front stoo...
