Category: LGBT Studies

Three polyamorous brothers-in-law

A short excerpt from Judith Stacey’s Unhitched: Love, Marriage, and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western China, detailing one of the dozens of committed relationships she found outside the… READ MORE

Happy Valentine’s Day from NYU Press

As Pope Gelasius I, the last pope of African descent, may have said when he first established a feast day for multiple St. Valentines in the 5th century, “Who needs… READ MORE

Economist forum on Gay Marriage

A thorough debate at The Economist on gay marriage includes a featured post from M. V. Lee Badget, author of When Gay People Get Married. Despite the evidence of social… READ MORE

The Anthropology of Girls Kissing Girls

Leila Rupp’s book, Sapphistries, has been getting an awful lot of attention online, even showing up at the livejournal of an “Evil Librarian.” But by far the biggest debate has… READ MORE

Constructing Queer Identity in Rural America

Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture, interviews Mary L. Gray, author of Out in the Country, about the processes through which queer youth in the country construct and maintain their… READ MORE

Considering Gay Utopias

From Social Text Journal’s Periscope section: In this dossier, colleagues offer critical appreciations of long-standing Social Text collective member José Esteban Muñoz’s recent book, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There… READ MORE