LGBTQ
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The San Francisco Solution
In a pair of side-by-side op-ed pieces last April, the San Francisco Chronicle presented a double critique…
Same-Sex Marriage: As Hawaii Goes …
“Whatever your view of same-sex marriage,” declared Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic, “in all likelihood, within…
Homosexuality and the Truth
Strangers and Friends By Michael Vasey. Hodder & Stoughton (London), 276 pages. Homosexuality and the Politics of…
The Uses of Clerical Scandal
When the Pope visited the United States last fall, the media indulged in a predictably frenzied examination…
Lost in the Movies
Last year I saw two truly vile movies, Pulp Fiction and Kids. The first turned my stomach.…
The Capital of Ambivalence
Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by jacques le rider translated by…
On Bringing One’s Life to a Point
In February of 1994, in what was its March issue, First Things published a statement on the…
Gay Marriage: Reimagining Church History
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex…
The Homosexual Movement
I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…
Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning
It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of…
Woodstock Comes to Washington
If any further proof were needed that the Woodstock generation has taken over the federal government, President…
Getting Real
A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about…
Moderately Religious, Desperately Sexual
The most surprising thing about The Janus Report on Human Sexuality (John Wiley & Sons) is that…
Recruiting for the Revolution
The Public Square The Nation is ecstatic. Its cover story “The Gay Moment” evinces high confidence that…
Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy
The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled “Victorian Sexualities.” “Topics,” stated the…
