Achieving disagreement with the former president of the National Organization for Marriage
E.J. Graff
E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).
Posted inAmerica and the World
General Petraeus, Just Like Us
Why are we supposed to be surprised about the head of the CIA’s fall from grace again?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
One Giant Leap for Gay Rights
Tuesday’s victories for same-sex marriage represent a watershed for the LGBT movement.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Handicapping the Marriage-Equality Initiatives
Even if we lose all four ballot battles today, we’re winning the war.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Don’t Marry Me in Minnesota
Why Tuesday will be a roadblock on the state’s path to equality
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Equality’s Amazing Vanishing Act
Polling shows a solid majority of voters in Washington support the state’s same-sex marriage referendum. But will that edge evaporate once voters hit the voting booth?
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
It’s Just Unbelievable to Be Freed
Why some of us may never get over how far lesbians and gay man have come from the old homo version of Jim Crow.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Hope in Maryland for Marriage Equality
On the Sarah Posner bloggingheads.tv show, I get a little more personal than I expected.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Does God Want You to Be Raped?
The right gives us another crazy outburst about women and rape. As before, it’s in keeping with what conservatives believe about women and sex.
