Did the Family Research Council’s security guard deserve to get shot?
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 inLaw and Justice
Fighting Hate with … Violence?
An LGBT center volunteer opens fire at the Family Research Council’s headquarters.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Today in Gay and Women’s Rights
Another Tigger day, in the military and in journalism
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Back Off, Masculinity Patrol
Decades after women were allowed to wear pants and play sports, the culture is finally expanding its definition of masculinity.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Thrown Away for Being Gay
A heartbreaking letter and a story that’s far too familiar
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Boy Scouts’ Learning Curve
A Los Angeles Times investigation shows how poorly the BSA handled instances of child abuse in the 1970s and 1980s, but also how much their policies have improved.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Who Said Women Can Have It All?
What we really need for working families
