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Talking Sense with The Education of Shelby Knox’s Creators and Star

An interview with Shelby Knox, Rose Rosenblatt, Marion Lipschultz by Rebecca Onion, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged abstinence, education, religious right, Republican, sex, sex education, Shelby Knox, Sundance.

Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes, and that may be truest in the realm of sex-education controversy. Texas, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, has also been at the forefront of abstinence-only education in public schools since 1995, when then-governor George W. Bush signed the curriculum into law.

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We Were Here, We Were Maybe Queer

New Historical Biographies Tell Us to Get Used to It

Article by Laura Nathan, Illustrated by Aaron Artessa, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Books; tagged gay, history, homosexuality, queer, role models, sexuality.

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers—and most infamous tyrants—were getting down with other men. Or so some folks would like us to believe. Historians and posthumous biographers have of late been venturing into the relatively uncharted territory of sexual historiography, exhuming some celebrated corpses to uncover the steamy, secret queer lives they once lived.

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