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Jul. 13th, 2018 08:26 pm
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Masha Gessen at The New Yorker reports on the arguments of American queer historian Martin Duberman about mistakes that gay rights movement has made. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/martin-duberman-on-what-the-gay-rights-movement-has-lost

Arshy Mann at Daily Xtra reports on how, in Russia and Poland and Hungary and now Brazil, homophobia is being used as a mobilizing tool by the far right. https://www.dailyxtra.com/the-global-far-right-is-riding-a-homophobic-wave-89429

Them reports on a study suggesting LGBTQ people are twenty times as likely to be social activists as cishets. (The overall rates, though, are still low.) https://www.them.us/story/study-finds-queer-folks-are-20x-more-likely-to-be-activists-than-cishets

Mike MIksche writes at Them about the genesis of the famous Andrew Holleran novel Dancer from the Dance and its impact. https://www.them.us/story/dancer-from-the-dance-andrew-holleran

Jonathan Adler at the Volokh Conspiracy points to a compelling argument at the Wall Street Journal why the Obergefell decision legalizing gay marriage nation-=wide in the United States will not be revisited. (I hope.) https://reason.com/volokh/2018/07/08/8-reasons-why-obergefell-wont-be-overtur
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