According to Eric Stanley, brutal murders of LGBT people, many of which involve the mutilation or dismemberment of the victim's body, are not aberrations and should not be dismissed as the products of individual pathology. Instead, Stanley argues, these forms of violence are central to the reproduction of liberal democracy in the US.

Forty years to the month after the Stonewall Riots sparked the gay liberation movement, a new volume edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca remembers the radical activism of the '60s and '70s and assesses the current state of LGBT organizing. Paola Bacchetta's essay recalls her involvement with a lesbian political group in Philadelphia.

A forerunner of radical politics a century later, Edward Carpenter advocated women's and homosexual liberation, prison reform, free love, health food, recycling, and Eastern mysticism. Sheila Rowbotham talks about the life, times and legacy of the 19th-century gay socialist writer. (Encore presentation.)