It was five month ago when Ahmet Yildiz told Turkish prosecutors that he had received death threats from members of his family. The prosecutor’s office declined to pursue the case and now Ahmet’s friends claim his family is responsible for his murder. He was gunned-down outside a café Wednesday, July 16th near the Bosphorus strait. After coming out ( Read more... )

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I've been thinking about the liminal lately. Mostly because of two of my classes, Variations in Human Sexuality and World History, the subject keeps grabbing my attention. I find it intriguing how various societies react to liminality, that undefined region removed form normality ( Read more... )

In “Charles Warren Stoddard: From Bohemian Effete to Homosexual,” Elwood Miller attempts to identify some of the shifts in transhistorical continuities of discourse during the end of the nineteenth century which begin to signify the generation of our modern conception of homosexuality. He analyzes the life, and friendships of nineteenth century ( Read more... )

. . . and anyone is interested, I may be found here.

SYDNEY - A sharp slowdown in coral growth on Australia's Great Barrier Reef since 1990 is a warning sign that precipitous changes in the world's oceans may be imminent, scientists said Friday ( Read more... )

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Bob Ostertag Historian, Journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis
Posted December 21, 2008 | 06:04 PM (EST)

Why Gay Marriage is the Wrong IssueIt's just plain sad what the gay and lesbian movement has come to. November 4 was so extraordinary, so magical. The whole world seemed to come together. Except for gays and ( Read more... )

So, I turned in my final draft of my research paper this morning and my professor asked for a word. She told me that I should really think about having it published, definitely in "Ex Post Facto," the History Department's Journal, but also in the "Journal of the History of Sexuality" as well. She thinks it is that good. She said she would email me ( Read more... )

I thought this letter to the editor in this week's Bay Area Reporter was so spot on it was worth posting here.

Marriage rights don't fulfill equal rightsAmidst all the current shaking up around Prop 8 and securing equal marriage rights for couples of any and all genders, which I certainly favor and support, I wish to state that equal rights will ( Read more... )