Tag: Litmus

This post moves back in time from the impact of gay rights groups on the Democratic Party, looking instead to the formation of 1970s gay rights groups and their early alliance with feminist interest groups. I explore early divisions to show how gay rights groups arrived at a place where they could i...

In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Democratic presidential candidates met to discuss LGBTQ rights at a CNN town forum, mostly enunciating unequivocal support for recent policy concerns. It is hard to imagine a Democratic nominee that does not receive at least a passing grade from L...

This week, the 2024 joint meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is taking place in Chicago. In honour of this event, which I am not attending, but which droves of North American and other colleagues and students will be at, I thought it woul...