Designer Jackboots?
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30th December 2009
In New Zealand, organised neofascism is politically impotent, but the British National Party may threaten hard-won LGBT gains after the forthcoming elections.
Diversionary Tactic? Uganda and Its Civil War
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23rd December 2009
Is the Museveni regime's Anti-Homosexuality Bill a diversionary tactic to mask its real impotence against Lords Resistance Army insurgents?
Sex, shame and society
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18th December 2009
"Pride involves self-esteem, self-assertion and the active assertion of identity. Shame involves self-negation, self-hatred, closetry and denial."
Climate Change and LGBT Politics
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10th December 2009
"As climate and environmental degradation accelerates, New Zealand's culture, economy and society will be threatened."
Pragmatists, Activists and Populists
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6th December 2009
There are three predominant modes of democratic political engagement- pragmatism, activism and populism. How are they reflected within LGBT politics?
LGBT Communities, Poverty and Social Policy
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29th November 2009
Why is New Zealand's LGBT community so silent when it comes to poverty and homelessness?
Queensland: State of Unease
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23rd November 2009
Has Queensland become too dominant within Australia's federal politics? And if so, what does that mean for LGBT and other human rights?
Jamaica: Murder on the dancefloor
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15th November 2009
What's the social and historical context of Jamaica's anti-gay 'murder music'?
Old Treachery? William S. Burroughs & the Provocation Defence
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10th November 2009
As NZ approaches the final abolition of the provocation defence, disturbing questions arise about a late gay literary icon.
The case against Citizens Initiated Referenda
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5th November 2009
"We are all too aware of the damage that binding so-called citizens referenda have inflicted on same-sex marriage equality in the States."
Australia: Refugees Need Not Apply
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1st November 2009
Australia's draconian refugee and asylum policies affect lesbian/gay refugees and asylum seekers from oppressive countries of origin.
France: False Universals?
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24th October 2009
In France, homosexuality was decriminalised in the early nineteenth century. Why has LGBT progress been so slow? Civil republicanism.
Hyde v Hyde (1866): The 'Meaning' of 'Marriage'?
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18th October 2009
In most British Commonwealth debates over same-sex marriage, Hyde v Hyde (1866) keeps getting hauled out. What did it say?
Analysing 'Parental' Rightists
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12th October 2009
Could the right-wing backlash against banning the physical punishment of children repeat itself in the context of adoption reform?
Adoption: In whose 'best interests?'
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5th October 2009
When it comes to debates over family policy, three principles stand out- the best interests of the child, continuity of care and parenting skills.
