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By AnonymMichael Bronski
Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.
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By AnonymMichael Bronski
I have come to realize that in life and politics, there is always more to take into consideration.
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By AnonymMichael Bronski
The progress of LGBT rights is often directly tied to—sometimes through indirect routes—multiple fights for human dignity and freedom.
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By AnonymMichael Bronski
The second decade of the twenty-first century—just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, early LGBT rights theorists, ignited the idea of same-sex freedom in 1868—we find ourselves in a heady, global maelstrom of unimaginable liberation and continued stark oppression.
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