Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained? Conceptualizing Social Movement “Success” in the Lesbian and Gay Movement

Bernstein, Mary

doi:10.1525/sop.2003.46.3.353

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“…The policies of the U.S. drug war and the fight against AIDS have particularly stigmatized and ostracized those who are both HIV-seropositive and who use illegal drugs-this stigma is subsequently aggravated because it is experienced by those (i.e., drug using gay men who are HIV-seropositive) whose sexuality already situates them outside the boundary of an otherwise heteronormative society (e.g., Bernstein 2003;Conrad and Schneider 1992). Such stigmatized and ostracized individuals can eventually form their own "sub-universes" (Berger and Luckmann 1966:104), complete with their own values and norms.…”

Section: Subculture Formation In the Drug War And The Fight Against Aidsmentioning

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“Party N Play” on the Internet: Subcultural Formation, Craigslist, and Escaping from Stigma

Frederick

Perrone

2014

Deviant Behavior

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Section: Subculture Formation In the Drug War And The Fight Against Aidsmentioning

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“Party N Play” on the Internet: Subcultural Formation, Craigslist, and Escaping from Stigma

Frederick

Perrone

2014

Deviant Behavior

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“…Bernstein (2003) argues that discursive impact, which structures the ways in which the social world is accorded meaning, is integral to 'contentious politics ' (2003; 357). By living out their lives openly, the lesbian parents in this study contributed to meaning-making about the nature of family.…”

Section: I) Qa Encourages a Wider Constituency Of Others To Engage Inmentioning

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Queerying activism through the lens of the sociology of everyday life

Fish

King

Almack

2018

The Sociological Review

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The approaching 30 th anniversary of the introduction of the 1988 Local Government Act offers an opportunity to reflect on the nature of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) activism in Britain.The protests against its implementation involved some of the most iconic moments of queer activism. Important though they are, these singular, totemic moments, give rise to, and are sustained by small, almost unobtrusive, acts which form part of LGB people's everyday lives.In this paper, we aim to contribute to a re-thinking of queer activism where iconic activism is placed in a synergetic relationship with the quieter practices in the quotidian lives of LGB people. We interrogate a series of examples, drawn from three studies, to expand ideas about how activism is constituted in everyday life. We discuss the findings in relation to three themes: the need to forge social bonds often formed a prompt to action; disrupting the binary dualism between making history and making a life; and the transformative potential of everyday actions/activism. The lens of the sociology of everyday life i) encourages a wider constituency of others to engage in politics; ii) problematizes the place of iconic activism.Keywords: everyday life; quotidian activism; queer politics; equality; rights. Monk and Barker, 2015). Yet despite these legal protections, social change for sexual minorities is uneven, partial, complex and contested: witness, for example, the rise in homophobic hate crime in the wake of the EU referendum vote (Townsend, 2016) or the rolling back of LGBT rights in the USA following the election of President Trump (Siddiqui, 2017). In this paper, we aim to contribute to a re-thinking of queer activism 1 where iconic activism is placed in a synergetic relationship with the quieter practices in the quotidian lives of LGB 3 people. As Abrahams (1992; 327) has noted, this approach could enhance inquiry into the connections between 'daily life and structural and institutional systems of power relations'. Introducing the sociology of everyday lifeUsing the lens of everyday life to interrogate activism is a contested endeavour. Sarah Pink argues that everyday life and activism are often studied in isolation from each other (2012; 4).While activism takes place in public -it is explicit, explosive and political -the everyday is associated with the private, the hidden and often the banal. Piotr Sztompka (2008) It is this location at the juncture between individual daily lives and the structural context in which they are lived which makes the sociology of everyday life such a useful lens to explore small-scale activisms. Quotidian activism quietly, but powerfully, works alongside the explicit, political moments in our history. As Neal and Murji (2015; 811) argue, 'the realm of the everyday brings the structure-agency knot directly into view, but more than this it brings close the immediacy and intensity of being in and part of social worlds'. This location enables 4 exploration of how people make sense of society's norms and values an...

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“…By proceeding in this way, academic works have left the multiple levels of social change unconnected although they are in reality interrelated, influencing each other mutually and iteratively through long-term processes of social change. By contrast, social movement activists fully understand the relationship between different sorts of outcomes and move accordingly when choosing strategies and goals (Bernstein 2003).…”

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Social Movements and Interrelated Effects: The Process of Social Change in the Post-Movement Lives of Provisional IRA Volunteers

Bosi

2016

Rev. int. sociol.

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This article systematizes a research perspective that assesses how different types of social movement outcomes mutually influence one another over time. This should offer a different perspective on the consequences of social movements by shifting the focus from single outcomes to processes of social change that are generated by the interaction between different types of effects. The variety of ways in which movement outcomes potentially influence each other in the short-term, or over an extended period of time, will be broken down into six hypothetical processes. Empirically, through a process-tracing approach, in this article I investigate how the British state's responses at policy level toward the disruptive mobilization of the Catholic community in Northern Ireland and to the armed campaign of the PIRA have shaped the postmovement lives of PIRA volunteers.

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained? Conceptualizing Social Movement “Success” in the Lesbian and Gay Movement

Cited by 91 publications

References 30 publications

“Party N Play” on the Internet: Subcultural Formation, Craigslist, and Escaping from Stigma

“Party N Play” on the Internet: Subcultural Formation, Craigslist, and Escaping from Stigma

Queerying activism through the lens of the sociology of everyday life

Social Movements and Interrelated Effects: The Process of Social Change in the Post-Movement Lives of Provisional IRA Volunteers

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