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Much is contained in Christopher Isherwood’s classic memoir, “Christopher and His Kind” (1976), which speaks directly to the matters of gay identity and purpose that have been the

It is an astonishing fact that the total volume of student loan debt in America is greater than the totality of mortgage debt. This fact surfaced in the context of the recent Congressional debate,

It is one of the incomparable blessings of the modern gay liberation movement, leading up to and following the Stonewall riots moment in 1969, that it both enabled and compelled two of the greatest

As Princeton University professor Jonathan Israel documents with enormous detail in his latest tome, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights, 1750-1790 (Oxford University

Every once in awhile, there’s something someone says on one of the Sunday morning blab shows that makes you sit up and take notice, to make a mental note that you must print out the

In a century defined by the most savage of brutal wars and genocides, among those things that legendary gay writers Tennessee Williams and Christopher Isherwood held in common were their pacifist

Following a tour with Elie Wiesel of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Monday, President Obama called the experience “searing,” as it was for him earlier when he visited with

William Inge’s screenplay combined with Elia Kazan’s direction and a young Natalie Wood’s acting to produce a classic cultural intervention into the numbing routine of life in

The biggest news at the annual banquet of Equality Virginia in the Virginia state capital of Richmond last Saturday was the rousing, cheering ovation given by the 1,000-plus attendees for former

The American playwright William Inge (1913-1973) was so tight with Tennessee Williams that scholars speculate they might have been lovers at some point. He was in the intimate gay literary circles