Episode 5: Andrew Sullivan

Bad Gays

It's Andrew Sullivan: the gay catholic conservative journalist, supporter of race science, inventor of gay marriage, and self-appointed arbiter of the morality and respectability of the gay community.

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Sources:

Murray, Charles N. and Richard Herrnstein. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. (New York: Free Press, 1994).

Rubin, Gayle: "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." in: Carole Vance, ed.Pleasure and Danger (Abingdon: Routledge, 1984).

Sullivan, Andrew: published works and interviews/profiles of, including:

  1. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/06/gay-marriage-votes-and-andrew-sullivan-his-landmark-1989-essay-making-a-conservative-case-for-gay-marriage.html
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090425202254/http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/andrew-sullivan-thinking-out-loud

  3. https://www.thenation.com/article/andrew-sullivan-overexposed/

  4. https://newrepublic.com/article/113639/andrew-sullivans-gay-life-gay-death-1990
  5. Virtually Normal. (New York: Knopf, 2005). 
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/10/magazine/when-plagues-end.html
  7. https://www.poz.com/article/Larry-Kramer-HIV-20772-4898
  8. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/denying-genetics-isnt-shutting-down-racism-its-fueling-it.html
  9. https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/06/19/the-real-andrew-sullivan-scandal/

Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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