New and Noteworthy
BY Claire Potter ON May 28, 2015
- The archbishop of Ireland voted “no,” but 62% of other Irish voters passed a referendum to legalize gay marriage on the Emerald Isle (BBC, May 24 2015.)
- Historian schools sex columnist Dan Savage on misuses of the term “medieval”: at The Stranger (April 22, 2015.)
- Neurologist and humanist Oliver Sacks comes out in his new memoir On the Move (Knopf: 2015.) Listen to Sacks on Radiolab Live (H/T: Lauren Kientz Anderson.)
- CFP on “Digital Humanities and the History of Sexuality” at Notches blog.
- The Illinois House of Representatives passed a ban on therapies intended to “cure” queer minors (Windy City Times, May 19 2015.) Now they could start on other for-profit weight loss boot camps for kids and programs for so-called “troubled teens.”
- Girl Scouts of America reaffirms its embrace of trans scouts (The Advocate, (May 22 2015), while the Boy Scouts of America, led by former CIA Director Robert Gates, stating that “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be,” retreats from homophobia in confusion and disarray (Politico, May 21 2015).
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