Empirical research conducted in the wake of marriage-law reforms is now beginning to emerge. This session collects such research on political identities, expressions, and struggles in LGBTQ people’s daily lives. Two presentations explore the impact of same-sex marriage on critical understandings of marriage and queer identity, while another examines the causes behind the rise of reported […]
Read moreIn this workshop-style panel, we will engage with the foundational feminist, queer, and racial justice roots of the book Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (Quesada, Gomez & Vidal-Ortiz, University of Texas Press 2015), which discusses LGBT activists in community organizations in the 1970s throughout the 1990s in the U.S./Puerto Rico. The book’s […]
Read moreResearch conducted in the wake of marriage-law reforms is now beginning to emerge. This panel collects such research on organized LGBTQ politics in the aftermath of same-sex marriage laws, alongside one paper whose focus on the periods before and after the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. provides a useful comparison. Using a range of methodologies, these […]
Read moreEmpirical research conducted in the wake of marriage-law reforms is now beginning to emerge. This session collects such research on the experiences of LGBTQ couples and families in Canada, South Africa, and the U.S. state of Virginia. A final paper focuses on Australia, where same-sex marriage rights are not yet available but de facto legal recognition is, creating an ambiguous […]
Read moreTamara Alexander: “SB 48 FAIR Education Act: Boom or Bust” (full abstract) Ryan Thoreson: “Beyond RFRA: Rethinking LGBT Children’s Rights and Parents Rights in Schools” (full abstract) Nina Mauceri & Lisa Stulberg: “Young Adult LGBTQ Literature: Beyond Marriage, Beyond Normal” (full abstract) Adam William John Davies & Cameron Greensmith (non-presenting co-author): “Queer Liberalism and Exclusionary Politics: Gay-Straight Alliances and Homonormativity” (full […]
Read moreClare Forstie: “Making Community Change: Rural Queer Kinship and its Normative Limits in the Post-Marriage Era.” (full abstract) Theo Greene: “Street Corner Citizenship: Gay Neighborhoods, Vicarious Citizenship, and the Self-Enfranchisement of LGBT Youth.” (full abstract) William Potter: “Havens of Reflexivity in a Heteronormative World? Retreats as Spaces to Contemplate Alternative LGBT Futures.” (full abstract) Greggor Mattson: “Lesbian Bars, […]
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