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characters into television series—Will and Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Glee, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black—has been an activist-supported strategy to give viewers contact with gay people through “parasocial contact,” the indirect experience of friendship with a gay television character.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Later, at the mortuary, the director told Strong that though she was paying for the funeral, she had no right to make decisions, “a family member must do it.” Fleming’s death certificate stated she was unmarried.3 Charlene Strong, who hadn’t been a gay rights activist before, became one.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
In that single but pervasive respect, a homosexual child, if he is like me, is orphaned. I understood from the beginning that, where all sexual business was concerned, parents were as much a part of the outside world as were, say, the president and Congress. The discovery and development of one’s sexuality is virtually synonymous with the discovery
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Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
“We represent the human race. Let’s start there.”
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
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Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
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