The Washington Post
Apr 21, 2023 - 7 min
Are the radical roots of gay liberation being overlooked? For the Andrew W Mellon New Directions Fellow at Harvard University, Jim Downs, gay liberation didn’t begin with marches and political rallies, but with a revolution in thought. In this piece for Aeon magazine, written in the wake of the US Marriage Equality bill passed in 2015, he delves into its origins.