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Gay old time

Many people take for granted that the divide between gay culture and mainstream culture is as thin as the latex of an expensive condom.
Ten moments when the mainstream assimilated gay culture and made it its own
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | May 30, 2007

Deadly art

It’s tempting to see two new biographies of Leni Riefenstahl and assume they’ll push the envelope, and expose the dirt about her personal life.
Sorting out the life and career of Leni Riefenstahl
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | April 10, 2007

Major embarrassment?

Matt Sanchez was a darling of the conservative media establishment, but then news broke that he was, only a few years ago, performing in famous gay porn films.
VIDEO: Michael Bronski assesses the gay-porn career of O'Reilly Factor fave Matt Sanchez
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | March 16, 2007

Observing Global Orgasm Day

Sure, everyone looks forward to winter solstice because we know that after weeks of dreary darkness, they days will get longer and brighter.
Show you care
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | December 20, 2006

The Rhoda Reaction

what are the causes of evil and how do we eradicate it — or at least keep it in abeyance?
Why The Bad Seed teaches us more about “evil” than George W. Bush ever could
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | December 20, 2006

Politics and pleasure

Thank you for Michael Bronski’s article about Ellen Willis.
Letters to the Boston editor
By LETTERS | December 06, 2006

My Ellen Willis

When I was a queer teenager in suburban New Jersey in the early 1960s, I decided that I wanted to be Susan Sontag.
Making sense of a woman who was always two or three steps ahead of the Zeitgeist
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | November 30, 2006

Flashbacks: September 1, 2006

These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Ian Sands and Paul Babin.
The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
By BOSTON PHOENIX FLASHBACKS | August 30, 2006

Free at last

Bernard Baran was released from prison on June 30, and is now free on bail awaiting a new trial. The Baran interview: an extended transcript of Michael Bronski and Catherine Tumber's conversation with Bernard Baran.
Bernard Baran talks about how he survived 21 years in prison and the gay community’s unwillingness to take up his fight
By MICHAEL BRONSKI AND CATHERINE TUMBER | July 14, 2006

Ralph Ginzburg, American provocateur (1929–2006)

I first read Ralph Ginzburg’s magazine Fact in 1964, and it was a revelation.
In memoriam
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | July 12, 2006

Add lib

I was thrilled to read Michael Bronski’s story on the sorry state of gay activism and how it got that way (“ Libbing It Up ”).
Letters to the Boston editor, June 23, 2006
By EDITORIAL | June 21, 2006

Libbing it up

The gay-rights movement has hit a brick wall.
The future of gay politics can be found in its past — with a few tweaks
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | June 13, 2006

Don't be spooked

The move to make gay marriage unconstitutional should haunt people of good will. Oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment? Sign the petition .
Bush and Romney can slow same-sex marriage, but they can’t stop it
By EDITORIAL | June 08, 2006

Divine drama

Letters to the Boston editor: June 2, 2006
By EDITORIAL | May 31, 2006

Queering the Code

With close to 60 million copies in print worldwide and a film version starring Tom Hanks opening on May 18, The Da Vinci Code is a galloping success.
Leonardo da Vinci’s work is coded, all right — as gay
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | May 17, 2006

Second time around

If you are thinking of going back to school, you will want to do four things before making that commitment.
Meeting the high costs of going back to school
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | May 08, 2006

Finding religion

He is the epitome of traitorousness in Western culture, his name synonymous with evil and betrayal.
Will this Judas save us?
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | April 12, 2006

Bad behavior

When the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying was illegal, everyone knew that it marked the beginning of a long war.
You can’t do that here in Massachusetts
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | April 07, 2006

Faith-based TV

As liturgical organ music fills the sanctuary, good-looking white families respectfully fill the pews of a high-ceilinged, beautifully ornamented church.
Those edgy UCCs are at it again
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | March 31, 2006

Not kidding

While the battle over same-sex marriage dominates the headlines in the ongoing struggle for gay-and-lesbian equality, many other battles are just as important, if not more so.
Catholic Charities depart from tradition
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | March 09, 2006

Where is the love?

Within a couple months of its release, Brokeback Mountain went from being simply a well-made, serious film to a widely recognized, highly satirized cultural artifact.
Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage — gay and straight
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | March 06, 2006

JT and me - side

By | February 22, 2006

The Boyfriend

At the American International Toy Fair in New York this past Sunday, Barbie’s old flame was presented to a whole new generation of American girls. Let’s just say that he is no longer the all-American boy.
Valley of the dolls: Is the new Ken gay?
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | February 21, 2006

By any other name

From being physically harassed in my middle-class catholic high school in the mid 1960s to being assaulted in boston’s outdoor cruising areas, i’ve seen a lot of anti-gay violence up close.
Gauging the distance between a horrific attack and a hate crime
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | February 10, 2006

Betty Friedan, 1921–2006

Friedan’s astute, savagely humorous critique of how women’s magazines dictated the terms of many female lives rang true.
In memoriam
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | February 09, 2006

The awful truth

Not to be outdone by recent Beltway-corruption scandals, the ordinarily more-subdued literary world found itself two weeks ago grappling with its own grim little fraud.
Recent revelations about fictitious memoirs have exposed our society’s lust for stories about savaging helpless children
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | January 25, 2006

Dr. Strangelove

On December 25, Dr. Charles W. Socarides, one of the last of the old-school scourges of the gay community, died at the age of 83 in New York.
The man who wanted to "cure" homosexuality succumbs to a lifetime of controversy
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | January 18, 2006

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