“…In the past two decades, we have witnessed a slow reversal in the scholarship of legal sociology that previously excluded non-heterosexuals to a burgeoning subfield, called ‘queer legal history’ that places heteronormativity at the center of legal critique (Kornbluh, 2011). Consequently, we have a better understanding of how heteronormativity is instantiated by the state through its institutions such as marriage, immigration, criminal law and others (Canaday, 2009; Eskridge Jr. and Hunter, 2011; Eskridge Jr., 1999; Hull, 2006; Luibheid, 2002; Stein, 2010).…”