Michael Bronski has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades. He is the author of award-winning books, including most recently A Queer History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2011). He is Professor of the Practice in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and a senior lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies and in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.
So why do many LGBT people, and others, feel so deeply about the need to have them?