Same-Sex Marriage and the Future of the LGBT Movement

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lgbt Movement

Marriage: Obligations, Benefits, and Access

Just Married ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Special Obligations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
The Many

This chapter examines the many “legal incidents” of marriage: the specific benefits, responsibilities, obligations, and protections that are associated with marriage by law. While critics focus on the special privileges or benefits that spouses acquire in marriage, those are balanced by special obligations. The chapter suggests that the whole package seems reasonably appropriate for both opposite-sex and same-sex couples. It also considers the ways in which marriage seems to promote the good of spouses, children, and society, along with the class divide that now characterizes marriage and parenting. It argues that this class divide, not same-sex marriage, is the great challenge for the future.

The future is queer kids: Queering the homonormative temporalities of same-sex marriage

Politics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Callum Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Gender

Same-sex marriage is emblematic of a crisis of vision in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non-binary, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics, according to some queer theorists. Through the concept of homonormativity, Duggan insightfully criticizes same-sex marriage politics as spatially privatizing and depoliticizing queer difference. Brown argues, however, that Duggan herself reifies homonormativity. He calls for theorists to imagine the queer potential in non-fixed spatial relations. Given Duggan and Brown’s focus on spatiality, this article approaches queer imaginations beyond homonormativity from a temporal perspective: I ask what transformational potential same-sex marriage holds to queer heteronormative and homonormative temporalities. I argue that same-sex marriage may not only queer the public/private dichotomy, but also subvert the heteronormative temporality of straight time. Straight time produces identities, spaces, and times as fixed, pre-political, and timeless, and is constructed against queer time in which identities, spaces, and times are non-fixed, political, and sociohistorically constructed. By theorizing straight/queer time as politically produced through the reproductive relation between adulthood and Childhood, I repoliticize the temporalities of homonormative and queer imaginaries and recognize children as queer citizens of a queer future. Same-sex marriage may therefore produce two previously untheorized images of queer potential: the Child queered by their parents, and the Child queered by their sexuality.

scholarly journals Strange Bedfellows: How an Anticipatory Countermovement Brought Same‐Sex Marriage into the Public Arena

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (02) ◽  
pp. 449-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dorf ◽  
Sidney Tarrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Triangular Relationship ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
Lgbt Movement

Since the 1980s, social movement scholars have investigated the dynamic of movement/countermovement interaction. Most of these studies posit movements as initiators, with countermovements reacting to their challenges. Yet sometimes a movement supports an agenda in response to a countermovement that engages in what we call “anticipatory countermobilization.” We interviewed ten leading LGBT activists to explore the hypothesis that the LGBT movement was brought to the fight for marriage equality by the anticipatory countermobilization of social conservatives who opposed same‐sex marriage before there was a realistic prospect that it would be recognized by the courts or political actors. Our findings reinforce the existing scholarship, but also go beyond it in emphasizing a triangular relationship among social movement organizations, countermovement organizations, and grassroots supporters of same‐sex marriage. More broadly, the evidence suggests the need for a more reciprocal understanding of the relations among movements, countermovements, and sociolegal change.

scholarly journals The hate that dare not speak its name?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbie Love ◽  
Paul Baker
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Anal Sex ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Age Of Consent ◽  
The Future

This paper uses corpus-based methods to explore how British Parliamentary arguments against LGBT equality have changed in response to decreasing social acceptability of discriminatory language against minority groups. A comparison of the language of opposition to the equalisation of the age of consent for anal sex (1998–2000) is made to the oppositional language in debates to allow same-sex marriage (2013). Keyword, collocation and concordance analyses were used to identify differences in overall argumentation strategies, assessing the extent to which previously explicit homophobic speech (e.g. homosexuality as unnatural) has been replaced by more indirect strategies (e.g. less use of personalised argumentation via the pronoun I). We argue that while homophobic language appears to be on the decrease in such contexts, there is a mismatch between words and acts, requiring analysts to acknowledge the presence of more subtle indications of homophobic discourse in the future.

scholarly journals LGBTQ+ EXISTENCE IN INDONESIA: INVESTIGATING INDONESIAN YOUTH’S PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-181
Author(s):  
Ikrar Genidal Riadil
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Mandatory Requirement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Queer Communities

The presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities is a mandatory requirement. Even though the LGBTQ+ community is a group of people concerned about religious belief, Indonesians even now regard LGBTQ+ as transgression and sin. Those who do not consequently approve of same-sex marriage. Interestingly, this perception has been disputed because, in reality, others may have started to be open-minded and fully accept the prevalence of LGBTQ+ people in LGBTQ+ communities. This study used qualitative research to investigate the perspective of Indonesian younger generations towards the LGBTQ+ community in Indonesia. The researcher used the questionnaire as an instrument for data collection with ten questions required to fulfilled by Indonesian youth to investigate their perspectives. The study's data is collected from Indonesian participants, with a total of was eighty-three Indonesian youths between the ages of 15-26 in all around Indonesia. Since the issue of the study is quite sensitive in Indonesia, there are sure of positive and negative perspectives that are also apparent in the result of questionnaires. In a nutshell, the study's aim will further help the authorities take precautions to be incorporated in the future. Also, it is to investigate the Indonesian youths from a different background of beliefs and perspectives toward the LGBTQ+ community. The implication of this research informed young people of the LGBTQ+ subculture to Indonesian parents and teachers as those responsible for educating young kids so that they would not be adversely affected by this social phenomenon.

Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximiliano Campana ◽  
Juan Marco Vaggione
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
The Right ◽  
Lgbt Movement

Same-sex marriage has become one of the LGBT movement’s main demands in Latin America in the past decade. Argentina was the first Latin American country to recognize same-sex marriage in 2010, and it has been replicated in other countries such as Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Mexico. In all these cases, the courts have been an important ally of the LGBT movement, generating the constitutional grounds and decisions for the recognition and expansion of the rights of same-sex couples. In this sense, litigation has proved to be a powerful strategy for LGBT groups for their demands of recognition, and in the analyzed cases, the judiciary has been receptive to these petitions and claims assuming different roles. The litigation experience in Latin America has been shaped by the U.S. litigation model for the advancements of civil rights, a model that has had an impact in the LGBT campaigns for same-sex marriage, and as a result it is possible to identify different roles that the Latin-American courts have played in protecting same-sex couples and legally recognizing their partnerships in the region. Thus the historical developments of the strategic litigation have been crucial for the recognition and advancement of rights, generating a type of litigation that was originated in the United States and later replicated in Latin America, thanks to institutional changes and successful experiences of same-sex marriage litigation. However, the courts have assumed different roles when recognizing the right to marriage between same-sex couples in the region, according to the legal, social, political, and international context where they are inserted, showing that the “politization of the justice” and the “judicialization of politics” are two interconnected procceses that combine in different and complex manners when debating sexuality in the region.

Marriage, the Final Frontier? Same-Sex Marriage and the Future of the Lesbian and Gay Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Bernstein ◽  
Brenna Harvey ◽  
Nancy A. Naples
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Future ◽  
Gay Movement

Addressing heteronormativity: Gendered familial appellations as an issue in the same-sex marriage debate in Taiwan

Sexualities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1080-1096
Author(s):  
Ting-Fang Chin
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Constitutional Level ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
Legal Arguments ◽  
Lgbt Movement

On 24 May 2017, a historical landmark for the LGBT movement was achieved in Taiwan. The courts delivered Interpretation no. 748, which declares that the legal regulation in the Civil Code disallowing two individuals of the same sex to marry is unconstitutional and that the law should therefore be amended within two years. While the legal arguments at the constitutional level seem settled, discussions regarding sexuality, family and tradition triggered by the debate about same-sex marriage are continuing. Drawing on feminist and queer scholarship, I advocate turning the spotlight from the ‘subversive’ homosexual to ‘normative’ heterosexuality. In addition, through the theoretical lens of interactionism on sexuality, this study investigates a quotidian but controversial topic emerging in the debate: gendered familial appellations. Using transcripts of public hearings as research data, I discuss how the practice of employing gendered familial appellations based on the idea of the heterosexual family becomes an issue in the debate. Through an analysis of the matter, I argue that the heteronormative social order embedded in everyday interactions within the context of Taiwan society is revealed. This heteronormativity is not only gendered and hierarchically heterosexual but also ethnocentric in nature.

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