Brian Soucek (UC-Davis): Perceived Homosexuals: Looking Gay Enough for Title VII. Nancy J. Knauer (Temple): Identity/Time. From Polari, Christopher Bryant interviews R.B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History (and more). Have we got Matthew Shepard all wrong? A new book argues that America’s most notorious hate crime was not a hate crime at all. David Peisner on Alan Chambers, the man behind the historic implosion of the ex-gay movement. Audra Schroeder on how gay blogger Michael Rogers is tweeting politicians out of the closet. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler showed Natalie Hanman the transformative power of the word queer. Mobeen Azhar on gay Pakistan: Where sex is available and relationships are difficult. Peter Drucker reviews Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman. Dystropia: Troy Farah on why the sassy gay friend isn't progressive. Nathaniel Frank on how gays are winning the right to the word "marriage", thanks to the DOMA ruling. Sally R. Munt reviews Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America by Colin R. Johnson. LGBPTTQQIIAA+: Emily Zak on how we got here from gay. The case for hate speech: Jonathan Rauch on how Anita Bryant, Jerry Falwell, and Orson Scott Card have advanced the cause of gay rights. Alice Dreger on the old way to be gay: Are gay male couples a new thing, evolutionarily speaking? Sexual liberation, human freedom: Doug Ireland on how this century’s LGBTQ liberation movement must be part of a broader project to redefine human freedom.
