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Michael Bronski is Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard. He is the author of A Queer History of the United States and is currently writing a version of that book for young adults.
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.
The United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.
Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?
Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.
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