Sublime

Her supporters circulated a petition asking that she be reinstated. It got 8,000 signatures.9 When they put the petition on the net, it got 130,000 signatures.

But most serious of all, Judge Davies wrote, was that “Thompson and Sharon are a family of affinity, which ought to be accorded respect.”

Thomas Hal Phillips’ The Bitterweed Path (1949) looked at a complicated erotic relationship between a father and son and a third man; Paul Goodman’s Parents Day (1951) examined the relationship of a married man with a student at a private school; Gerald Tesch’s Never the Same Again (1956) was a sympathetic account of an affair between a thirteen-ye

dastardly

Gen X’ers were at the forefront of the legal and political fight to get it legalized—and witnessed firsthand the entire arc of attitudes toward LGBT people, from disdain (if not violence) to acceptance to celebration.

An elderly lady who agreed to hang a sign told him, “It’s about time those boys stood up for themselves.”

For his bold judicial opinion he received bushels of letters threatening to kill him and telling him he’d burn in hell for eternity. Kramer had to live with twenty-four-hour police protection and wear a bulletproof vest under his judicial robes. He also strapped on a gun.41

And as hateful as these experiences with men were, she is still certain that her love of women was not born out of trauma but rather was a part of her very nature, from the very start.

they also reflect the most irredeemable of queer intimacies, intimacies unlikely to be trumpeted as desirable freedoms.