Gay Rights
The Personal is Political
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on May 6th, 2013
Back in the heady early days of the women’s movement, activists fashioned a slogan: the personal is political. It was a rejoinder to those men and women who denied the political nature of social attitudes that kept women “in our place,” social attitudes that dictated “proper” and decidedly unequal feminine behaviors and occupations. That slogan [...]
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Poor Marginalized Micah….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on May 2nd, 2013
In his most recent newsletter –shared with me yesterday by a friend who follows pronouncements from the fringes– Micah Clark of the American Family Institute professes amazement at the notion that there is anything newsworthy about the recent “coming out” of NBA player Jason Collins. “When asked about this previously unknown mid-level player, I said [...]
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Born That Way
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 30th, 2013
There is a relatively recent internet site called “Upworthy,” that culls videos from around the web that the site’s managers deem worthy of a wider audience (they’r “UpWorthy”) and promotes them. This morning, I saw one of them–a clip from comedian Wanda Sykes in which she explains why it is more difficult to be gay than [...]
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Prognosticating and the Supremes
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 27th, 2013
As any lawyer will attest, predicting the outcome of Supreme Court cases is foolhardy in the extreme. But I’ve never let the prospect of making a fool of myself stop me, so I’m going to go out on a limb and do just that. Yesterday, as practically everyone within earshot of a news report knows, [...]
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The Personal and the Political
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on March 16th, 2013
There has been a flurry of publicity in the wake of Ohio Senator Rob Portman’s announcement that he has changed his position on same-sex marriage. Portman had been a reliable vote for pro-discrimination measures—he’d supported DOMA and voted for a Constitutional amendment to declare marriage a union between one man and one woman, among other [...]
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