LGBT

The Morning After Marriage

Should the gay community really be saying “I do”?

  • Jason Anthony

It Takes Two

In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

No Objections

What history tells us about remaking marriage

  • Nancy F. Cott

Body of Work

Experiments in life and poetic form.

  • Tess Taylor

The End of Sexual Identity

Fiction’s new terrain.

  • Stacey D’Erasmo

Judgment Day

The Academy’s voters rejected Brokeback Mountain, but the film marks an important moment in Hollywood history.

  • Alan A. Stone

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Identity and Immunity

In the face of the AIDS crisis, physical expressions of love are as revolutionary as the act of writing poetry.

  • Rafael Campo

Lesbian Fictions: Straight or Narrow?

Traditionally, lesbians have appeared in fiction just long enough to be saved by men, perform acts of gross depravity, or suffer at their own hands.

  • Kerry Fried

Le Cage au Dull

The varieties of gay fictional experience.

  • Daniel Harris
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