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Bronski: Camping it Up with The Bad Seed
Zmag Article, March, 01 2007
Michael Bronski
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S he is instantly recognizable as a camp icon. With her flouncing gingham dress, blond pigtails, obnoxious bangs, and disingenuously angelic voice, eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark—“the bad...
Bronski: Gay History as Guest Speaker
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Michael Bronski
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T his year was the fourth time I’ve taught “Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies” at Dartmouth College. The course covers history, sociology, theory, an...
Bronski: Beyond
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
Michael Bronski
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Well, it looks like the fight for same-sex marriage is really heating up.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Bronski: Wedding Bell Blues
Zmag Article, November, 01 2002
Michael Bronski
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It is often the small, everyday actions that define the cutting edge of political movements and the burgeoning movement to get newspapers to print the marriage or civil-union announcem...
Bronski: The Attack of the Wealthy Queers
Zmag Article, September, 01 2002
Michael Bronski
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The Attack of the Wealthy Queers
Bronski: Sense and Sensitivity
Zmag Article, July, 01 2002
Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski Earlier this spring, in its nationwide chain of 311 stores, Abercrombie & Fitch began selling T-shirts featuring slant-eyed, coolie-hatted caricatures of Asia...
Bronski: Harmful to Minors
Zmag Article, June, 01 2002
Michael Bronski
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Michael Bronski Just as the predatory-priest scandal is capping years of heightened anxiety about our children’s well-being, here comes Judith Levine’s Harmful to Minor...
Bronski: Mommy Dearest
Zmag Article, May, 01 2002
Michael Bronski
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Mommy Dearest
