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Gay Marriage Ruined Everything

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Private Parts & Public Sex

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On Kink at Pride

Excerpt: The really radical act is to question the idea that any sexual act is somehow in itself transgressive.

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American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.

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“Forget Stonewall,” in The Gay and Lesbian Review

The point in forgetting Stonewall is to hold on to the much more difficult task of thinking about “event-ness” and history in more complicated ways.

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Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

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Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

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Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.  

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“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

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How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.