Category: Gay & Lesbian

  • slippery positions The State 2013-05-17 Tiana Reid Columbia University As a self-defined Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet, Audre Lorde is the model representative for intersectionality. As such, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches has become a ubiquitous text in undergraduate courses, for the theory and practice of intersectionality; a way to look at what women’s studies…

  • Assuming Responsibility for Who You Are: The Right To Choose “Immutable” Identity Characteristics New York University Law Review Volume 88, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 373-400 Anthony R. Enriquez New York University School of Law Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, a district court case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act,…

  • Interview: Nia King, “Bodies on the Line” Mixed Reader: A blog of mixed race literature 2013-04-27 Tali Weinberg Nia King is multimedia producer with a passion for social justice. She started out as a zinester writing about mixed-race identity, made a short film about searching for trans-friendly housing in the Bay Area, and has recently…

  • Won’t Somebody Think of the Children Slate 2013-03-27 Brian Palmer, Slate’s Chief Explainer Do opponents of marriage equality always claim that they’re merely worried about the kids? During yesterday’s oral arguments over the constitutionality of California’s ban on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia claimed that there is “considerable disagreement among sociologists” as to whether being…

  • AAS 550: Asian Americans of Mixed Heritages San Francisco State University Spring 2012 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies This is an interactive, dynamic course taught in a seminar style with an expectation of active student participation. Group work and interaction are emphasized in order to provide students with real life problem…

  • Interviews with same-sex interracial couples–a topic on which there is very little research—allow Steinbugler to examine for the first time how everyday racial practices are shaped by sexuality and gender. Amy Steinbugler challenges the widespread assumption that interracial intimacy represents the ultimate erasure of racial differences.

  • Beyond Selma-to-Stonewall The New York Times 2013-01-27 By including gay rights in the arc of the struggle for civil rights — the road “through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall” — President Obama linked his presidency to ending antigay discrimination and underscored the legal wrong of denying gay people the freedom to marry.  “Our journey…

  • The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives SUNY Press October 2006 244 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6893-3; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6893-7 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6894-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6894-4 eBook ISBN10: 0-7914-8106-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-8106-6 Marla Brettschneider, Professor of Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Political Science & Women’s Studies University of New Hampshire Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Gay/Lesbian…

  • Same-Sex Issue Pushes Justices Into Overdrive The New York Times 2012-12-09 Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent In the civil rights era, the Supreme Court waited decades to weigh in on interracial marriage. On Friday, by contrast, the court did not hesitate to jump into the middle of one of the most important social controversies of…

  • The Sexualization of Difference: A Comparison of Mixed-Race and Same-Gender Marriage Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2002 pages 255-288 Josephine Ross, Associate Professor of Law; Supervisor, Criminal Justice Clinic Howard University, Washington, D.C. I. Introduction: Mixed-Race Love as a Sexual Orientation The past prohibition of mixed-race marriages in many…