Tag: homosexuality

The Archbishop’s Argument: Anglicanism, Homosexuality, and Colonial Complexities

By T.J. Tallie April 22, 2014 LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

T.J. Tallie In a call to LBC Radio on 4 April 2014, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, warned against the Anglican Church’s embrace of same-sex marriage for fear of inciting anti-Christian violence in African countries. Welby made reference explicitly to an attack that occurred in Nigeria; he described seeing […]

Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900

By Julia Laite April 8, 2014 History of Sexuality 7 comments

Julia Laite A recent post by regular blogger Nikki Daniels (‘An open letter to bearded hipsters’) that has made the usual rounds of facebook and twitter has got me thinking about how male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man. The blogger wrote about […]

Disputing ‘Gay Jim Crow’: Rhetorical Appropriation in LGBT Politics

By T.J. Tallie March 6, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

T.J. Tallie This week, Notches contributor Adam Shapiro posted a detailed article investigating Arizona’s controversial attempted ‘religious freedom’ bill, SB1062 (the bill has since been vetoed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer). The article did great work in critically engaging the paradoxical potential for the bill to allow legal discrimination of […]