The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader

Abelove, Henry

doi:10.4324/9780203820575

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“…In his decision, he quoted a passage from the Massachusetts case that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage in that state (Goodridge v Dept of Public Health 2003). Marriage holds an essential role in this nation as "it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity; civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and who to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition" ( [8], p. 13; [9,[12][13][14]). Dean Spade notes that when same-sex couples live together in monogamous relationships or get married, they can "move from being highly stigmatized to being considered acceptable" ( [39], p. 29).…”

Section: Benefits Of Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The decisions in both Windsor and Obergefell were a significant step forward in advancing civil rights for LGBTQ identified individuals in the United States. While same-sex couples have maintained long-term committed relationships for centuries, legal recognition of these relationships is a fairly new phenomenon [12][13][14][15][16]. At the time of the Obergefell decision, twenty countries (10% of all nations) and 36 (72%) U.S. states had legalized same-sex marriage.…”

Section: Benefits Of Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Same-sex couples may also face challenges within their communities and families due to lack of acceptance and understanding [14,29,30,37,50,53,[60][61][62][63][64]. Several choose to remain silent and hidden within and outside of their communities due to prevailing adverse cultural and family beliefs, religious traditions, racism and homophobia [8,14,48,50,[61][62][63][64].…”

Section: Perils Of Legalizing Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ways in which a person's romantic, intimate, sexual experiences, and relationships impact her or his life is deeply personal and often difficult to mobilize around. Many LGBTQ individuals are focused on the necessities of daily living, therefore marriage is often not a top priority [13][14][15]30,31,37,39,50,51].…”

Section: Perils Of Legalizing Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

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“I Do, I Don’t”: The Benefits and Perils of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States—One Year Later

Wolff

2017

Humanities

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Abstract:In 1970, a gay male couple applied for and was given a marriage license in Minnesota. The license was eventually rescinded by court order. Forty-five years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, limiting the federal definition of marriage to consist of one man and one woman, was unconstitutional. The result was the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. The purpose of this article is to discuss the importance of establishing the right for same-sex couples to legally marry. It outlines the benefits and costs to LGBT communities one year after the establishment of same-sex marriage in the U.S. This paper explores the limits of utilizing a rights-based approach when advocating social change. The recommendation is for LGBT individuals, communities and allies to shift tactics to adopt a capabilities approach to organizing and mobilizing people, groups, and organizations around issues of injustice. A capabilities framework addresses the complexities of individual and community needs while providing a foundation for coalition building and lasting positive social change.

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Section: Benefits Of Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Benefits Of Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Perils Of Legalizing Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Perils Of Legalizing Marriagementioning

confidence: 99%

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“I Do, I Don’t”: The Benefits and Perils of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage in the United States—One Year Later

Wolff

2017

Humanities

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“…Activists and scholars in the humanities and social sciences increasingly recognised the impossibility of analysing modern life, thought and culture without making lesbian, gay and queer analyses central (see Abelove, Barale, & Halperin, 1993;Fuss, 1991;Warner, 1993, for representative collections). The multiple epistemologically fractured ways of defining the homo/heterosexual binary were realised as obligatory reference points for discussions of the modern condition (Sedgwick, 1990) and the ontology of gendered being (Butler, 1990).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexuality, normality and intelligence. What is queer theory up against?

Hegarty

2011

Psychology & Sexuality

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I engage queer theory and the history of the intelligence quotient (IQ) movement in the United States here to re-imagine the critical nature of both projects. Early IQ researchers, such as Terman and Goddard, hypothesised that IQ was necessary for sexual morality and tested the hypothesis that prostitutes had lower IQ than other women. Terman was further concerned that gifted children not be 'queer' and appealed to a Freudian logic of sublimation to explain why children whom he deemed gifted sometimes engaged in homosexual acts. Intelligence testing is not simply a 'disciplinary' form of power/knowledge of the sort described by Foucault in Discipline and Punish; it is not oriented towards normalising 'gifted' people that it individualises. Rather, gifted people are made visible within a strategy of changing government to accommodate their difference from typical intelligence. This analysis of power suggests new ways of thinking about the intersectional politics of conservative rhetoric that relies on IQ testing, such as the book The Bell Curve.

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