Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution

By Gillian Frank June 12, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence 7 comments

The sexual content of stranger danger films grew more sexually explicit over time.

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro March 10, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 7 comments

The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie March 6, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

‘Gay Jim Crow’ invests in false equivalence by appropriating continued struggles of people of color in the United States.

The Gay Jim Crow – The legal history behind "religious freedom" to discriminate

By Adam Shapiro February 27, 2014 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 20 comments

Are Arizona and other states using ‘religious freedom’ to create the ‘Gay Jim Crow’?