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Gay Marriage Rights: A Fight for Inclusion and Security

04 min 42 sec

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Lisa Duggan, professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, argues that the struggle for gay marriage rights is partly due to security concerns triggered by the current economic climate. "Those arguments that gay liberation and feminism made that sounded freeing, in this environment can sound more frightening than freeing."
Parents Sue School for Allowing Son to Be Openly Gay

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Gayle Salamon, assistant professor of English at Princeton University, describes a law suit filed by the parents of Lawrence King, an openly-gay 15-year-old who was shot dead by fellow classmate Brandon McInerney.

The suit charges E.O. Green Junior High School for failing to protect King from his own gender transgressive behavior.
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James - Ireland

Posted: 11.12.09, 12:26 PM

On Darwinism, reproduction, and sexuality. There are a couple of errors in Elizabeth Grosz's account of the relationship between sexuality and reproduction and its treatment by evolutionary biologists. Firstly, Darwin’s followers, which is a rather odd way to describe evolutionary biologists, have indeed considered the issue. The Israeli scientist Amotz Zhavi named the apparent paradox of the increased threat that sexual activities can pose to an individual’s life “the handicap principle”. The British biologist Richard Dawkins has endorsed it. The late William Hamilton pioneered investigation into the “why” of sexual reproduction. Thus it is inaccurate to claim that biologists since Darwin have ignored the obvious questions surrounding sexuality and reproduction. Secondly, the argument presented that because there is more to sexual behaviour than reproduction that it follows that there is no link between the two – in the speaker’s words “At the level of most species the link between sexuality and reproduction is utterly contingent, random, and accidental” – is not valid. Put simply, while there can be sexuality without reproduction, there cannot be reproduction without sexuality. It is only human technology which is capable of breaking the link. In other words, while Grosz’s contention is not true when looking at evolutionary history it might be very true in the future.

Frankystein123

Posted: 10.23.09, 06:29 PM

How can the parents be so ignorant as to the real cause of this tragedy? It was clearly the homophobic sentiment of the classmate of the victim that resulted in his death, not the boy's "flamboyant" expression of his sexuality. Really now, are you going to tell the kid that being gay is taboo and he should presented to be heterosexual instead?