Robert J. Corber is Associate Professor of American Studies and Lesbian and Gay Studies at Trinity College, Hartford. He is author of "In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America" (1993) and "Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity "(1997).
Stephen Valocchi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Hartford. He has published widely on the welfare state and on social movements in the United States, in particular the gay liberation movement. His essay...