Corporatizing gay pride

Many would call this progress. Others might decry the de-gaying of gay pride. This trend has been going on for years, and not just in Chicago, and is likely to accelerate in the wake of the SCOTUS ruling in favor of same-sex marriages nationwide. Some parade-goers...

“As Mexican as we want to be.”

Gentrification has gotten a bad rap, with the term akin to “wealthy whites pushing out long-term residents of color and driving up rents.” In traditionally Latino Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, younger Latinos don’t have quite the same view about...

Affirmations of a Gay Marketer

I used to laugh at the gay jokes.  In fact, I used to tell them.  I laughed in high school when the jock toughs proudly showed up at school with black eyes — they had gone gay bashing at the local bar.  That’s how it was in Manchester, New Hampshire in the...

On Charleston, Willful Ignorance and History

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races –that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to...