In the 1940s film "Now", "Voyager", Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga "Postcards from the Edge", Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, pla[...]

From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly brav[...]