The Stonewall Reader

How do you map the US Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling that struck down the last of the laws criminalizing gay and lesbian sex? The conventional narrative would have it that the power rests in the hands of the nine robed ones; a more radical model would mention the gay Texas couple who chose to turn their lives inside out over many years to press the la

To Ann Northrop, AIDS seemed like the war in Vietnam all over again—again the powerful didn’t care about the powerless, who were dying.

“We represent the human race. Let’s start there.”