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Gay old time

Ten moments when the mainstream assimilated gay culture and made it its own
Many people take for granted that the divide between gay culture and mainstream culture is as thin as the latex of an expensive condom.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  May 30, 2007
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Deadly art

Sorting out the life and career of Leni Riefenstahl
It’s tempting to see two new biographies of Leni Riefenstahl and assume they’ll push the envelope, and expose the dirt about her personal life.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  April 10, 2007
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Major embarrassment?

VIDEO: Michael Bronski assesses the gay-porn career of O'Reilly Factor fave Matt Sanchez
Matt Sanchez was a darling of the conservative media establishment, but then news broke that he was, only a few years ago, performing in famous gay porn films.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  March 16, 2007
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Observing Global Orgasm Day

Show you care
Sure, everyone looks forward to winter solstice because we know that after weeks of dreary darkness, they days will get longer and brighter.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  December 20, 2006
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The Rhoda Reaction

Why The Bad Seed teaches us more about “evil” than George W. Bush ever could
what are the causes of evil and how do we eradicate it — or at least keep it in abeyance?
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  December 20, 2006

Politics and pleasure

Letters to the Boston editor
Thank you for Michael Bronski’s article about Ellen Willis.
By LETTERS  |  December 06, 2006
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My Ellen Willis

Making sense of a woman who was always two or three steps ahead of the Zeitgeist
When I was a queer teenager in suburban New Jersey in the early 1960s, I decided that I wanted to be Susan Sontag.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  November 30, 2006

Flashbacks: September 1, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Ian Sands and Paul Babin.
By BOSTON PHOENIX FLASHBACKS  |  August 30, 2006
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Free at last

Bernard Baran talks about how he survived 21 years in prison and the gay community’s unwillingness to take up his fight
Bernard Baran was released from prison on June 30, and is now free on bail awaiting a new trial. The Baran interview: an extended transcript of Michael Bronski and Catherine Tumber's conversation with Bernard Baran.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI AND CATHERINE TUMBER  |  July 14, 2006
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Ralph Ginzburg, American provocateur (1929–2006)

In memoriam
I first read Ralph Ginzburg’s magazine Fact in 1964, and it was a revelation.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  July 12, 2006

Add lib

Letters to the Boston editor, June 23, 2006
I was thrilled to read Michael Bronski’s story on the sorry state of gay activism and how it got that way (“ Libbing It Up ”).
By EDITORIAL  |  June 21, 2006
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Libbing it up

The future of gay politics can be found in its past — with a few tweaks
The gay-rights movement has hit a brick wall.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  June 13, 2006
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Don't be spooked

Bush and Romney can slow same-sex marriage, but they can’t stop it
The move to make gay marriage unconstitutional should haunt people of good will. Oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment? Sign the petition .
By EDITORIAL  |  June 08, 2006

Divine drama

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Letters to the Boston editor: June 2, 2006
By EDITORIAL  |  May 31, 2006
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Queering the Code

Leonardo da Vinci’s work is coded, all right — as gay
With close to 60 million copies in print worldwide and a film version starring Tom Hanks opening on May 18, The Da Vinci Code is a galloping success.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  May 17, 2006
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Second time around

Meeting the high costs of going back to school
If you are thinking of going back to school, you will want to do four things before making that commitment.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  May 08, 2006
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Finding religion

Will this Judas save us?
He is the epitome of traitorousness in Western culture, his name synonymous with evil and betrayal.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  April 12, 2006
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Bad behavior

You can’t do that here in Massachusetts
When the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying was illegal, everyone knew that it marked the beginning of a long war.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  April 07, 2006
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Faith-based TV

Those edgy UCCs are at it again
As liturgical organ music fills the sanctuary, good-looking white families respectfully fill the pews of a high-ceilinged, beautifully ornamented church.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  March 31, 2006
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Not kidding

Catholic Charities depart from tradition
While the battle over same-sex marriage dominates the headlines in the ongoing struggle for gay-and-lesbian equality, many other battles are just as important, if not more so.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  March 09, 2006
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Where is the love?

Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage — gay and straight
Within a couple months of its release, Brokeback Mountain went from being simply a well-made, serious film to a widely recognized, highly satirized cultural artifact.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  March 06, 2006

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The Boyfriend

Valley of the dolls: Is the new Ken gay?
At the American International Toy Fair in New York this past Sunday, Barbie’s old flame was presented to a whole new generation of American girls. Let’s just say that he is no longer the all-American boy.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  February 21, 2006
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By any other name

Gauging the distance between a horrific attack and a hate crime
From being physically harassed in my middle-class catholic high school in the mid 1960s to being assaulted in boston’s outdoor cruising areas, i’ve seen a lot of anti-gay violence up close.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  February 10, 2006
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Betty Friedan, 1921–2006

In memoriam
Friedan’s astute, savagely humorous critique of how women’s magazines dictated the terms of many female lives rang true.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  February 09, 2006
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The awful truth

Recent revelations about fictitious memoirs have exposed our society’s lust for stories about savaging helpless children  
Not to be outdone by recent Beltway-corruption scandals, the ordinarily more-subdued literary world found itself two weeks ago grappling with its own grim little fraud.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  January 25, 2006
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Dr. Strangelove

The man who wanted to "cure" homosexuality succumbs to a lifetime of controversy
On December 25, Dr. Charles W. Socarides, one of the last of the old-school scourges of the gay community, died at the age of 83 in New York.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI  |  January 18, 2006

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