Evoking Leo Bersani’s notorious 1987 polemic, “Is the Rectum a Grave?,” Lynne Huffer strives to not only negotiate the divide...
Trask’s book makes an important contribution toward understanding how the conceptualizations of homosexuality of the New Left, the countercultural radicals, and the liberal establishment in the academy influenced how the Gay Liberation Movement emerged in the 60s. Read More
Let me be blunt: it is pretty freaking amazing to have a major musical production about a lesbian, and a butch lesbian to boot. A part of me is still a bit dumbfounded, "Did I really just see a butch lesbian on the stage of the Public Theater?" Read More
Academic freedom, and, simply put, teaching in general, is a precarious enterprise for the queer adjunct. Read More
Not many people may know about the disputes between Lewis Terman–a man who helped created the testing of intelligence– and...
Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press) may very well be the most revolutionary queer text to hit bookstores since Eve Sedgwick’s...
The popular narrative of gay liberation seems inseparable from the urban landscape. From the drag balls of 1920s Harlem to...
As public opinion has grown increasingly favorable of same-sex marriage, why has the issue become more contentious for the communities it aims to “serve”? Read More
In exploring how sex was imagined in the nineteenth century, author Peter Coviello examines the writings of figures as diverse as the founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith and black abolitionist Frederick Douglas. Read More
Most writers understand that narratives are constructions that can never truly or objectively capture the totality of an event. Using...
