Dupuis Martin | Same-Sex Marriage, Legal Mobilization, & the Politics of Rights | The civil rights of lesbians and gay men are a prominent issue on the public agenda today, and one of the most contentious debates is the recognition
Dennis Altman; Jonathan Symons | Queer Wars | The claim that LGBT rights are human rights encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used re
Paul Robinson; University of Chicago Press | Queer Wars | From the 1969 rebellion at Stonewall to recent battles over same-sex marriage, Gay Liberation in the United States has always been closely associated
Alice S. Rossi | Sexuality Across the Life Course | How does sexual behavior change over one’s life-span? How does sexual satisfaction affect the quality and stability of marriage? How has the AIDS epid
David B. Myers | Did God Die on the Way to Houston? | James Friedman, a retired philosophy professor living in Houston, receives an invitation from a woman, identifying herself only as Shekhinah, who clai
Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | ‘ Solitude… je ne crois pas comme ils croient, je ne vis pas comme ils vivent, je n’aime pas comme ils aiment… Je mourrai comme ils meurent ‘, écr
John D’Emilio | Queer Legacies | There is no single archive of gay life in Chicago. But since 1981, the Gerbert-Hart Library and Archives has been collecting records of lesbian, gay,
Josyane Savigneau | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Yourcenar was born Marguerite de Crayencour in Brussels in 1903. She lost her mother at birth, her native Belgium at the age of six, and wa
Peter Lewis Allen | The Wages of Sin | Near the end of the century, a new and terrifying disease arrives suddenly from a distant continent. Infecting people through sex, it storms from coun
Japonica Brown-Saracino | How Places Make Us | We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play.