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Visibility interrupted : rural queer life and the politics of unbecoming
\"A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
Based on pioneering research on the history of homosexualities in Africa and current lgbti activism, Marc Epprecht provides a sympathetic overview of the issues at play, and a hopeful outlook on the potential of sexual rights for all.
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LGBTQ+ athletes claim the field : striving for equality
In 2015, the world watched as soccer star Abby Wambach kissed her wife after the US women's World Cup victory. Milwaukee Brewers' minor league first baseman David Denson came out as gay. And Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner, an Olympic decathlete, came out as transgender. It hasn't always been this way. Many great athletes have stayed in the closet their whole lives, or at least until retirement. Social attitudes, institutional policies, and laws are slow to change, but they are catching up. Together, athletes, families, educators, allies, and fans are pushing for competitive equity so that every athlete, regardless of identity, can have the opportunity to play at their very best.
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Law and the Gay Rights Story
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and lesbians, but what caused this enormous sea change?
In his gripping new book, Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at the court cases that were pivotal in establishing gay rights. But he also tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was against them. Frank’s accessible style brings complex legal issues down to earth but, as a former litigator, never loses sight of the law’s human dimension and the context of the events occurring outside the courtroom.
Chronicling the past half-century of gay and lesbian history, Law and the Gay Rights Story offers a unique perspective on familiar events like the Stonewall Riots, the AIDS crisis, and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Frank pays special attention to the constitutional issues surrounding same-sex marriage and closely analyzes the two recent Supreme Court cases addressing the issue. While a strong advocate for gay rights, Frank also examines critiques of the movement, including some coming from the gay community itself. Comprehensive in coverage, the book explains the legal and constitutional issues involved in each of the major goals of the gay rights movement: a safe and healthy school environment, workplace equality, an end to anti-gay violence, relationship recognition, and full integration into all the institutions of the larger society, including marriage and military service. Drawing from extensive archival research and from decades of experience as a practicing litigator, Frank not only provides a vivid history, but also shows where the battle for gay rights might go from here.
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Faith, politics, and sexual diversity in Canada and the United States
While acknowledging differences between Canada and the United States in their political responses to religion and sexual diversity, this volume moves beyond stereotypes to pose larger questions and reveal surprising changes at the intersection of faith-based and LGBT rights claims.
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Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions
No area of public policy and law has seen more change than lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and trans-gender rights, and none so greatly needs careful comparative analysis.Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisionsexplores the politics of sexual diversity in Canada and the United States by analyzing three contentious areas - relationship recognition, parenting, and schooling. It enters into long-standing debates over Canadian-American contrasts while paying close attention to regional differences.
David Rayside's examination of change over time in the public recognition of sexual minorities is based on his long experience with the analysis of trends, as well as on a wide-ranging search of media, legal, and social science accounts of developments across Canada and the United States. Rayside points to a 'take off' pattern in Canadian policy change on relationship recognition and parenting, but not in schooling. At the same time, he explores the reasons for a 'pioneering' pattern in early gains by American LGBT activists, a surprising number of court wins by American lesbian and gay parents, and changes in American schooling that, while still modest, are more substantial than those instituted by the Canadian system.
Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisionsis a timely examination of controversial policy areas in North America and a reasoned judgment on the progress of lesbian and gay issues in our time.
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Liberating Lawrence
The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has
typically been told from the perspective of the coasts-in places
like New York, San Francisco, and Miami. But the Midwest town of
Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas (KU) and a
thriving location for activist organizations in the 1960s, had an
important role to play in the national story of LGBTQ activism in
the United States.
Liberating Lawrence tells the first-hand story of the
Lawrence Gay Liberation Front (LGLF), a KU student organization
that began in 1970. Having conducted sixty-seven interviews with
people who were involved at the time, author Katherine Rose-Mockry
focuses on the group's early formative years between the founding
and 1979, during which time the members of LGLF had to fight for
their right to exist on campus as an official student group.
Inspired by a class project that led him to interview local members
of the LGBTQ community, David Stout initiated the formation of the
LGLF in the summer of 1970 to provide a safe space for gay students
to meet each other and to establish a base of operations for
student activism on campus. The group focused on educating the
campus about the experience of being gay. They formed a speakers'
bureau in their opening months and gave frequent presentations at
KU and nearby campuses. In addition to raising awareness and
providing counseling services, the group was also self-consciously
political from the start and advocated for equal protections,
employment rights, and the elimination of laws criminalizing
same-sex sexual activity.
The university administration, however, did not welcome the
formation of the LGLF. Three times the chancellor rejected their
request for recognition. This led the group to file a lawsuit
against the university in 1971, and the famous cause lawyer William
Kunstler, who had previously defended the Chicago Seven in 1969,
agreed to represent them-a development that received national media
attention. While the LGLF lost the legal battle, they ultimately
won the war to change the campus culture.
Katherine Rose-Mockry has written the definitive history of gay
and lesbian activism at the public universities of Kansas.
Liberating Lawrence is a major contribution to our
understanding of the fight for gay pride and LGBTQ civil rights,
both locally and nationally.
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