Growing Up Gay and Amish in America
by James Schwartz Leaving the Old Order Amish community equals leaving everyone and everything you know. Any Amish that identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or gender questioning will be met with...
View ArticleA Brief Chronicle of the Long Life of a Nobody
by Jim Elledge Internationally-recognized, self-taught artist Henry Darger lived in utter poverty his entire life. Not long after he was born in Chicago (April 12, 1892), his impoverished parents...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me?: Reclaiming Mae West as Author...
by Chase Dimock We know Mae West as an actress, a sex symbol, a cultural icon, a comedienne, a master of the one liner and the double entendre. What we don’t think of Mae West as is an author. It...
View Article“No, Psychoanalysis is Not Against Gay Marriage” or How Psychoanalysis...
by Chase Dimock … As I write, the French parliament is embroiled in a protracted debate over President François Hollande’s push to legalize gay marriage and adoption in France. The controversy...
View ArticleThe Mother as The Child’s First Bully
Marx Ernst, La Vierge corrigeant l’Enfant Jésus devant trois témoins: André Breton, Paul Eluard et le peintre, 1926 by Diego Costa … When my sister got pregnant with her first child and was able to see...
View ArticleConstitutionality of Recent SCOTUS Decisions — DOMA and Voting Rights
by Matthew Nelson … (This article originally appeared on As It Ought To Be) The Supreme Court has been getting a lot of attention lately. With the deluge of end-of-term decisions over, it seems...
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