From PopMatters, the dimestore novels of the '50s and '60s helped foster the gay rights movement, and many of them aroused their readers while inspiring them; the artificial connection between homosexuality and communism created the popular myth of evil and undetectable gay subversives living inside 1950s society; and thanks to modern psychology, you can now be trained to accept or reject homosexuality depending on your interpretation of what's needed. Gays are the new niggers: 40 years after the Stonewall riots, what Bayard Rustin means for American democracy. Queer Prehistory: The gay-rights movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. A review of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday (and the first chapter). A review of The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas by David AJ Richards. From The Advocate, as a candidate Obama promised us a lot; as president he’s delivered very little; many gays are getting impatient. Gay Ambivalence: For some of us, gay pride is a simple matter of everyday life, but others need 10,000 semi-naked friends. You can be queen for a day: What are all of us honest-to-goodness, queer-to-the-core homosexuals to make of these wannabes?
