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Heterosexuality
& Straight Queer
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 The
Invention of Heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned
Katz, Gore Vidal
Katz's thoughtful, scholarly book examines the
words heterosexual and homosexual both of which are
scarcely 100 years old--and presents heterosexuality as a
historical social convention rather than as a natural, eternal
given. In arguing that these categorical terms are historical and
thus changeable, Katz reminds us that until very recently, sex was
considered mostly functional, urgently needed for procreation in
order to populate fledgling American settlements. He then
scrutinizes Freud's influence as a sex theorist who changed the
image of woman from her nineteenth-century idealization as the
"angel in the house" to one in which lack of erotic
response constituted mental illness. Moving beyond Freud, he takes
us through the twentieth century, stressing the conservatism of
the 1940s and 1950s before coming eventually to the churning
1990s, when a theatrical review titled Heterosexuals in Crisis
summarizes the "general sense of a different-sex erotic
emergency." Along the way, he cites such sex theorists as
Kate Millett, Ti-Grace Atkinson, and Michel Foucault, weaving them
into his controversial, readable discourse. Whitney Scott
Widely reviewed and praised in hardcover, this
work is the first book to study the social construction of
heterosexuality. This is a provocative re-examination of the very
definitions of sexual identity--"a valuable primer . . .
misses no significant twists in sexual politics."--the Village
Voice.
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Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs
and promoting policies which help young people make informed and
responsible decisions about their sexual health. We provide
information, training, and advocacy to youth-serving
organizations, policy makers, and the media in the U.S. and
internationally.
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CultureWatch is a monthly annotated bibliography
which monitors the religious right's political agenda and
strategy. Drawing on almost 400 sources across the political
spectrum, CultureWatch offers news briefs on the world of the
right-wing--revealing the breadth of the right-wing agenda and its
overall assault on civil rights. Some of the issues covered
include: school choice, reproductive rights, freedom of
expression, and gay and lesbian rights.
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The Feminist Majority and The Feminist Majority
Foundation are committed to empowering women and winning equality
through research, the sharing of information of value to feminists
everywhere, and effective action.
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GLSEN works to end this cycle of bigotry in K-12
schools. Through its growing network of 85 chapters in 35 states,
GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community
is valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or
gender identity. Founded as a volunteer group in Boston in 1990,
GLSEN led the fight that made Massachusetts one of the first
states to ban anti-gay discrimination in its public schools in
1993. GLSEN went national in 1994 and has since become one of the
nation’s leading voices for equality and safety in the
educational system.
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Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity.
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People For the American Way organizes and
mobilizes Americans to fight for fairness, justice, civil rights
and the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. PFAW lobbies for
progressive legislation and helps to build communities of
activists.
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Founded in 1916, Planned
Parenthood is the world's largest and oldest voluntary family
planning organization. Planned Parenthood is dedicated to the
principles that every individual has a fundamental right to decide
when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be
wanted and loved.
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Straight But Not Narrow exists to encourage
heterosexuals to actively promote fairness and equality for all
regardless of sexual orientation and identity.
Equal rights should not be denied to
anyone, regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation
and identity. Opponents of gay civil rights exploit the silence of
straight people as an endorsement of their actions; therefore, it
is a moral imperative for us to counter homophobia visibly and
vocally
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Before you know where you are going, know from
where you came. It is important to know about the philosophical
grounding of Liberalism, because this is the foundation that
everything else is built on. Too many people use the world
"liberal" without having the foggiest idea what it
means. Be sure you aren't one of them.
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