Gender and Sexuality

Slut Patrol Slut Patrol

In some parts of China, local officials keep track of women's menstrual periods. We haven't come to that, but anyone who thinks women's reproductive and sexual privacy is secure in...

Sep 12, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Miami Heat Miami Heat

An antigay ballot initiative spurs some surprising political coalitions.

Aug 29, 2002 / Feature / Donna Minkowitz

Join the EC E-mail Campaign Join the EC E-mail Campaign

America's rate of unwanted pregnancy is a huge public health scandal, but five years after being approved by the FDA, emergency contraception--the use of normal birth control p...

Aug 29, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception

The one thing that activists on every side of the abortion debate agree on is that we should reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.

Aug 29, 2002 / Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner

Reproductive Freedom Reproductive Freedom

The Nation reported on Dr. Pendergraft's troubles in "Abortion on Trial" by Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy, June 18, 2001.

Jul 25, 2002 / Feature / Hillary Frey

Sex, Morality and AIDS Sex, Morality and AIDS

At the fourteenth international AIDS conference, the gulf between the United States and the rest of the world widened as US officials touted policies that world health experts agr...

Jul 18, 2002 / Jordan Lite

Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right

They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!

Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein

Special Rights for the Godly? Special Rights for the Godly?

Let's say I'm a Jehovah's Witness, and I get a job in an understaffed emergency room where, following the dictates of my conscience, I refuse to assist with blood transfusions ...

Jun 6, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Pass ENDA Now! Pass ENDA Now!

Twenty-seven years ago, Bella Abzug introduced the first comprehensive gay civil rights bill in the history of the Congress.

May 25, 2002 / Doug Ireland

US and Evil Axis–Allies for Abstinence US and Evil Axis–Allies for Abstinence

President Dubya loves to crusade against the "axis of evil" in his war on terrorism--but he formed an unholy alliance with the countries that make up the "axis" to declare war on...

May 16, 2002 / Feature / Doug Ireland

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