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Fundamentally, [Michael] Bailey believes that gender identity and sexual orientation (in men) are predominantly determined by congenital factors. These could include in utero hormonal molding of critical areas of the brain, but for the underlying cause Bailey strongly leans towards genes.
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DAVID DANIELS occupies a rarefied category of classical singer: the countertenor, a male range above tenor that corresponds to a mezzo-soprano range. Widely regarded as the leading countertenor of our time, Daniels sings a repertoire that includes both classical opera and an extensive recital repertoire.
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  This issue completes the tenth volume of this journal, a minor miracle in itself, no doubt, but also a milestone of sorts in the GLBT rights movement. For it was in the context of the events of a decade ago that this journal was first conceived. The year was 1993: Bill Clinton had justMore
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Throughout his life, [Klaus Mann] maintained an almost childlike ideal of “Purity,” and in this period cherished the paradoxical notion, embodied in The Pious Dance, that Purity could be achieved only by immersing oneself in what life had to offer.
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Even now, nearly a century after the event, it is not generally realized that virtually everything experienced by Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice, short of his premature death on the beach, had first happened to the author.
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Lawrence v. Texas: A Victory for Liberty
The sodomy statute could have been declared unconstitutional under either theory—due process or equal protection—which is not to say that they are legal equivalents.
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Legal Challenges after Lawrence
The way in which Justice Kennedy wrote the Court’s opinion falls short of providing a clear roadmap for analyzing these constitutional questions.
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Lawrence Brings It All Back Home  Padlock Icon
  IN STRIKING DOWN the Texas law that made consensual sex in private between members of the same sex a criminal act, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking for the majority of the Supreme Court, wrote that the Texas law “demeans the lives of homosexual persons ... entitled to respect for their private lives.” By emphasizingMore
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Case Against Marriage Equality Implodes
Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissenting opinion that the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage rests on “pretty shaky grounds.” Though I rarely agree with Scalia, when he’s right, he’s right.
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  WHAT DO YOU DO after you’ve won one of the most important Supreme Court cases in decades and shoved the state, kicking and screaming, out of your bedroom? Apparently, you beg the government to walk right back in. “The Marriage Revolution” has arrived, and homosexuals are the unlikely heroes of the quest to reviveMore
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How the UN Can Advance Gay Rights
With its ability to impose individual criminal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, the ICC represents a momentous advance in international justice.
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  RECENT gay rights activism in much of Eastern Europe has been driven by the desire to become eligible for membership in the European Union (EU), which imposes a list of fairly stringent requirements on member countries in the sphere of #human rights guarantees, including adoption of laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. HungaryMore
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