MICHAEL BRONSKI ON THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT NOW AND THEN
WHY IT’S SCREWED UP AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE

Boston, MA, June 6, 2006 — In this week’s issue of the Boston Phoenix, Michael Bronski takes the measure of gay politics today — where it’s been, what it’s accomplished, and where it’s going. He argues that we’ve hit a ceiling with the “equal rights” approach, makes a plea for recovering the movement’s roots in the liberation struggles of the ’60s and ’70s, and looks at what a viable gay-liberation politics might look like today — after learning the lessons of the past 35 years.

Bronski, a long-time activist, scholar, and Phoenix contributor, outlines the flaws of the movement, and calls for cross-pollination with other social-justice groups, arguing that the movement needs “to entertain and enact a larger political and moral vision.”

His argument — impassioned, logical, necessary — is an important look not only at the then and now, but of the future of gay rights in the United States and around the world. “Libbing it up: the future of gay politics can be found in its past” can be found at http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid14423.aspx.

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