"We've been here all along" : the standpoint and collective resilience of transgender U.S. service members.

Eleazer, Jacob R

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“…Following the formal repeal of DADT in 2011, a small but vocal segment of LGBT rights activists pushed for open transgender service, especially after President Obama was reelected in 2012 and an increasingly LGBT-friendly climate emerged (Eleazer 2019;Hirshman 2012). In August 2015, the Secretary of Defense announced that the military was in the process of revising its policies to fully allow for open transgender service.…”

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Secrets and Ties: The Invisible Power of Hidden Relationships in Underground Social Movements

Sheng

2023

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This article develops a framework and set of theories for understanding the formation, maintenance, and emergence of underground social movements—namely, those in which participants must remain hidden during a part of movement activity due to stigma, sanction, or laws, but depending on circumstances may exist partially hidden or fully “above ground” at various stages. It extends previous research on hidden and clandestine movements beyond a focus on those defined by extremist political ideologies, violence, revolutions, and wartime resistance, to include others based on stigmatized social identities and beliefs. Specifically, I draw on a ten-year qualitative case study from 2009 to 2019, consisting of sixty in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of over 150 LGBT U.S. military service members who were secretly involved in some form of hidden mobilization in the repeal of various policies meant to exclude LGBT persons from openly serving in the military. I identify four different phases of movement formation—individual grievances, dyad creation, hidden networks, and movement emergence—and introduce the concept of “hidden distinctiveness” to capture how secrecy can become a strength for such movements.

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Section: Historical Context: Lgbt Exclusion In the United States Mili...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Secrets and Ties: The Invisible Power of Hidden Relationships in Underground Social Movements

Sheng

2023

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"We've been here all along" : the standpoint and collective resilience of transgender U.S. service members.

Abstract: this project would not have been possible without your invaluable insights, dedication, and hard work. To you and all the other queer research nerds out there reading this, thanks for joining me on this journey and for picking up the torch.

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Secrets and Ties: The Invisible Power of Hidden Relationships in Underground Social Movements

Secrets and Ties: The Invisible Power of Hidden Relationships in Underground Social Movements

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