Posts Tagged politics
Cookies and Savvy Politics
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on October 11th, 2010
Many years ago, when I first became what we now call a “straight ally,” working for equal rights for gays and lesbians, the only members of the community who were politically visible tended to be “in your face” activists. These were not people who appreciated nuance. Of course, this has been true of every political [...]
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Game-Playing
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on July 28th, 2010
When I was growing up, parents and teachers used to tell us “it isn’t whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” Honor was a higher goal than winning. Playing fair, displaying sportsmanship, generosity in winning and gallantry in losing were the goals. Adults worthy of our admiration and respect were those [...]
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Worth Pondering
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on December 5th, 2009
There has been a fascinating “book club” discussion about authoritarianism over at Talking Points Memo Cafe. This post, in particular, is worth thinking about. The observations of the book’s authors parallel several of the conclusions I reached in the research I did for my book God and Country:America in Red and Blue. The question, of course, [...]
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Progress and Its Discontents
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on June 19th, 2009
In my most recent column for the Indianapolis Star, I reported on our city’s Pride celebration, and pointed to the immense progress that has been made since I began attending such events in 1992. As I put it, “The crowd was huge, and broadly representative of the diversity of the gay community and those of [...]
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