• Novelist Garth Greenwell criticizes the mainstream branding of queer literature: acceptance and legal rights have come at an enormous cost. “That cost was a marketing campaign that took queer lives and translated them into values that could be appreciated by people who are disgusted by queer people" http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/branding-queerness-the-curious-case-of-fun-home/479532/ 9 comments 7/1/2017 books
• The trend in attitudes toward LGBT people is one of growing tolerance, but media coverage tends to focus specifically on acceptance rates of same-sex *marriage*—figures that are not entirely representative of change. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/branding-queerness-the-curious-case-of-fun-home/479532/ 3 comments 24/5/2016 politics
• Gay people have finally attained some degree of widespread acceptance and legal rights—all of which is important, but nonetheless came at an enormous cost. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/branding-queerness-the-curious-case-of-fun-home/479532/ 13 comments 8/5/2016 politics
• Novelist Garth Greenwell criticizes the mainstream branding of queer literature: acceptance and legal rights have come at an enormous cost. “That cost was a marketing campaign that took queer lives and translated them into values that could be appreciated by people who are disgusted by queer people" http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/branding-queerness-the-curious-case-of-fun-home/479532/ 10 comments 6/5/2016 books
• The National Bureau of Economic Research reports that there’s significant systemic error in the data on the LGBT population: “We find substantial under-reporting of LGBT identity and behaviors as well as underreporting of anti-gay sentiment ... even under anonymous and very private conditions.” http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/branding-queerness-the-curious-case-of-fun-home/479532/ 5 comments 30/4/2016 politics
• Selling Queerness: How a shrewd marketing effort turned Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, which deals with suicide and sexual identity, into a family-friendly musical http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/branding-queerness-the-curious-case-of-fun-home/479532/ 16 comments 25/4/2016 books

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