The Chronicle: The myth of the mainstream
By KENJI YOSHINO
When I began teaching law, in 1998, I was warned off writing about gay subjects. Well-meaning colleagues told me that writing on sexual orientation as a gay man would raise questions about my objectivity. I could see the force of that argument, both substantively and strategically. When I looked to those who wrote about their identities, I saw their work routinely discounted as “mesearch.”
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