Daring to Marry: Marriage Equality Activism After Proposition 8 as Challenge to the Assimilationist/Radical Binary in Queer Studies |
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Authors: | Shannon Weber |
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Institution: | Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department of Sociology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA |
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Abstract: | I analyze three case studies of marriage equality activism and marriage equality–based groups after the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Evaluating the JoinTheImpact protests of 2008, the LGBTQ rights group GetEQUAL, and the group One Struggle One Fight, I argue that these groups revise queer theoretical arguments about marriage equality activism as by definition assimilationist, homonormative, and single-issue. In contrast to such claims, the cases studied here provide a snapshot of heterogeneous, intersectional, and coalition-based social justice work in which creative methods of protest, including direct action and flash mobs, are deployed in militant ways for marriage rights and beyond. |
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Keywords: | same-sex marriage marriage equality LGBT activism Proposition 8 GetEQUAL JoinTheImpact queer theory assimilationism versus radicalism gay rights |
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