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Michael Bronski

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.

Articles

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as being threats to child welfare. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are the latest in a long history dating back to medieval attacks on Jews.
Michael Bronski
The HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics are very different, but both reveal that the United States has never understood the connection between community and personal well-being.
Michael Bronski

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

Michael Bronski
The death of Charley Shively marks the end of an era, but his revolutionary ideas for a just society resonate now more than ever.
Michael Bronski
Radical gay liberation laid the ground for the moderate legal gains of gay rights.
Michael Bronski

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

Michael Bronski

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