Any Day Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McRuer
Keyword(s):  
Gay Marriage

Robert McRuer considers how the film Any Day Now (Travis Fine, 2012) may serve as a model for bringing concerns about disability and immigration into conversations about contemporary homonormativity. Queer scholars’ and activists’ critiques of homonormativity, often characterized by the fight for gay marriage and adoption rights, rest on its mainstreaming goals, and its erasure of alternative forms of kinship and community. McRuer reads Any Day Now as resisting homonormativity through its presentation of modes of crip desire, desiring togetherness in and through embodied differences.

Gay Marriage: An American and Feminist Dilemma

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage Affiliation and Location in Return of Lost Letters: Reply to Waugh, Plake, and Rienzi (2000)

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-318
Author(s):  
F. Stephen Bridges
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Previous Conclusion

Reinspection of Waugh, Plake, and Rienzi's 2000 data allowed for several additional analyses. Statistical confirmation was found for no more negative attitudes toward gay marriage as measured by returned responses among churchgoers than among the general public. Confirmation was also found for their previous conclusion that the putative gay marriage controversy among Christian church attendees would be greater than among the general public, but for reasons different from those they proposed. Finally, it is argued that the limitations for the lost letter technique in “prohibiting fine distinctions” is not always correct because their analysis of one research question seemed not too subtle a distinction for the technique.

scholarly journals Current Explanations for the Variation in Same-Sex Marriage Policies in Western Countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pettinicchio
Keyword(s):  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Gay Couples ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Cross National

Abstract Over the last ten years, several western countries have recognized gay marriage either by providing gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, or by allowing civil unions. Other western countries have not. What accounts for this variation? This paper reviews and analyzes the key demographic, institutional and cultural arguments found in the literature on the legalization of gay marriage – especially as these pertain to cross-national comparison – and raises questions about assumptions regarding the extent to which there is variation on these variables across western countries. I argue that institutional and cultural explanations are only meaningful in explaining legalization when their combinations are specified in order to shed light on favorable (or unfavorable) circumstances for policy outcomes.

Love and the State: Gay Marriage in Spain

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Platero
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Gay Marriage

The pragmatics of humor reception: Young people's responses to a newspaper cartoon

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth El Refaie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Humor Appreciation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis paper uses the example of 25 young people's responses to a Daily Mail cartoon on the subject of gay marriage in order to explore the pragmatics of humor reception. The results indicate that the enjoyment of a multimodal joke depends to a large extent on the background knowledge, values and attitudes of the individual. If, for instance, a cartoon is too threatening to someone's core sense of identity, it is likely to create anger and alienation rather than amusement. Humor appreciation is also shown to depend on the broader socio-cultural context in which the cartoon is encountered.

scholarly journals APA Joins Legal Battle Against Gay Marriage Ban

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (23) ◽  
pp. 4a-4a
Author(s):  
Jonathan Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Legal Battle
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