Gender and Sexuality

Sex, Morality and AIDS Sex, Morality and AIDS

At the fourteenth international AIDS conference, the gulf between the United States and the rest of the world widened as US officials touted policies that world health experts agr...

Jul 18, 2002 / Jordan Lite

Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right

They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!

Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein

Special Rights for the Godly? Special Rights for the Godly?

Let's say I'm a Jehovah's Witness, and I get a job in an understaffed emergency room where, following the dictates of my conscience, I refuse to assist with blood transfusions ...

Jun 6, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Pass ENDA Now! Pass ENDA Now!

Twenty-seven years ago, Bella Abzug introduced the first comprehensive gay civil rights bill in the history of the Congress.

May 25, 2002 / Doug Ireland

US and Evil Axis–Allies for Abstinence US and Evil Axis–Allies for Abstinence

President Dubya loves to crusade against the "axis of evil" in his war on terrorism--but he formed an unholy alliance with the countries that make up the "axis" to declare war on...

May 16, 2002 / Feature / Doug Ireland

The Mullahs of Marriage The Mullahs of Marriage

Although former Vice President Quayle's legacy may not be one for the history books, he will certainly be remembered for the day he took on television's Murphy Brown.

May 15, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz

Regressive Progressive? Regressive Progressive?

As chairman of the fifty-nine-member Congressional Progressive Caucus and potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has ...

May 9, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Gayness Becomes You Gayness Becomes You

Nearly fifty years ago, in Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse suggested that homosexuals (then the current term) might someday--because of their "rebellion against the subjuga...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Martin Duberman

The Wonder Years The Wonder Years

Since this is going to be a story about sex and children, let's start with a bit of groping in the priests' chamber. I must have been 12. My confederates and I, all suited out ...

May 2, 2002 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski

Right Watch Right Watch

Rudolph the Red-Handed Terrorist

Apr 25, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz

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