I certainly haven’t been doing a good job of keeping up with the Internet, have I? What follows is a report of the web since my last installment, and after this I will try to stay more on top of things until the end of the month, when I’m taking off to foreign parts again.
Required Reading
The UK Home Office evinced disastrous hypocrisy last week, running a float in the London Pride parade but not caring enough about real human rights to heed asylum requests from gay people being persecuted in the Middle East. A Stonewall (UK LGBT rights) report tallied the homophobia in asylum decisions; it’s clear that both the UK and the US have been less than dedicated to the cause of LGBT human rights in foreign countries, as I blogged at Campus Progress. Last week, happily, the UK Supreme Court ruled in favor of two gay men previously denied asylum, but Alicia, Dave, and others suggested that it is very much worth calling your member of Congress or MP about these critical human rights issues, and I strongly recommend that you do so.
A.O. Scott’s Twilight: Eclipse review is my favorite thing of Scott’s I’ve ever read, and the headline of the fortnight is, from the Globe and Mail, “Sir John A. Macdonald, Duke of Wellington dragged into a street fight.”
Below the fold: American and world politics, LGBT issues, academia, books and literary criticism, history, culture and cultural criticism, Emily’s world and research.
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