Society

No Protection for Gays No Protection for Gays

There's a bill speeding its way through Congress that would shred much of the protection against discrimination provided by the dozens of local and state gay civil rights laws.

Jun 24, 1999 / Doug Ireland

Rebuilding the Gay Movement Rebuilding the Gay Movement

When Republican Senator Al D'Amato was endorsed for re-election last November by the Human Rights Campaign--the nation's wealthiest gay civil rights lobby--the HRC's appalling de...

Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / Doug Ireland

Love and Hate in Laramie Love and Hate in Laramie

Research assistance: Robin Reardon.

Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz

The Truth About Hate Crimes Laws The Truth About Hate Crimes Laws

It took the death of a young gay white man at the hands of two other young white men to bring the issue of violence aimed at lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people to n...

Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / Richard Kim

Same-Sex Spouses in Canada Same-Sex Spouses in Canada

On May 20, leaving its southern neighbor in the dust, Canada took a breathtaking leap forward in lesbian and gay rights.

Jun 24, 1999 / Feature / E.J. Graff

Holocaust Creationism Holocaust Creationism

Between 1945 and 1947 the United States underwent perhaps the most breathtaking ideological transformation in its history.

Jun 24, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener

CUNY Under Attack CUNY Under Attack

The politics of America's largest urban university have entered a restless, disordered, tumultuous period, a violent whirlpool from which it seems unable to extricate itself.

Jun 17, 1999 / Frederick S. Lane

A Hard Schooling A Hard Schooling

I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system. Of the 150 receiving degrees today, you hold only 191 jobs. That is less than two jobs p...

Jun 17, 1999 / Jimmy Breslin

Racial Ventriloquism Racial Ventriloquism

I know I'm not supposed to read too much into a movie like Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but when you're living with a 6-year-old whose entire generation role-plays and reiterat...

Jun 17, 1999 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Depression Confession Depression Confession

How will we know when women have achieved equality? Male politicians will all be bachelors.

Jun 10, 1999 / Column / Katha Pollitt

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