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Christian Denominations
While denominations such as the Metropolitan Community Church and the Unitarian Universalists welcome full participation by glbtq members and clergy, others are divided over glbtq issues, and some are ardent supporters of the most homophobic elements of the New Right.
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06/01/2008 |
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Symbols
The glbtq community has developed and appropriated many symbols, but where did they come from and what do they mean? In this series of slides, you will discover that while glbtq symbols are diverse in origin and meaning, all serve to render visible communities that have been marginalized or erased.
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05/01/2008 |
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Michael Dillon in India
Michael Dillon was the first person to medically transition from female to male. Here, Pagan Kennedy, the author of The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2007), tells the story of Dillon's unsuccessful efforts to become a Buddhist monk in India and his decision to reveal his secrets in a still unpublished autobiography he wrote near the end of his life.
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04/01/2008 |
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Decadence
In its broadest sense, decadence refers to the fall of a society from a position of strength and prosperity to a state of weakness and ruin. More narrowly, members of the nineteenth-century Decadent movement in art and literature either describe aspects of decadent life and society or reflect the decadent literary aesthetic.
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03/01/2008 |
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Tina Fiveash: A Retrospective
Australian artist Tina Fiveash (b. 1970) often appropriates the iconography of advertising to create a missing lesbian history. Her work is frequently humorous on the surface, but just as often delivers a fierce political punch on closer inspection.
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02/01/2008 |
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Spotlight: The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American literary and cultural movement that began after World War I and ended during the years of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The movement was influenced by the many black glbtq writers who contributed to it.
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02/01/2008 |
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Keith Boykin on Gentleman Jigger
Author, activist, and television personality Keith Boykin introduces Gentleman Jigger, a novel by Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent, and discusses the factors that prevented its publication before 2008.
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01/01/2008 |
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Eric Patterson on Brokeback Mountain
In this wide-ranging essay about Brokeback Mountain, author Eric Patterson contends that Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and the Annie Proulx short story on which the film is based compels Americans to consider the significance of love between men especially as it relates to the heroic national ideal of the Cowboy.
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10/01/2007 |
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Robert Sherer: Recent Work
Robert Sherer's recent work uses unusual media to address two sharply distinct aspects of gay male experience. His American Pyrographs series explores male adolescence and sexuality while Blood Works comments on--and raises questions about--romance and sex in the HIV era.
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05/01/2007 |
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Lesbian Paris (ca 1900-1940) Part 2
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, Paris was a center of sexual freedom and same-sex sexual cultures. Lesbian American and European expatriates and France's own lesbian writers and artists created a Bohemian social, sexual, and creative milieu that makes this time and place unique in the history of lesbian culture. Part 2 of 2.
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