The Rainbow after the Storm

The Rainbow after the Storm tells the story of the rapid liberalization of attitudes toward gay rights that made same-sex marriage the law of the U.S. sooner than almost anyone thought was possible. The book explains how and why public opinion toward gay rights liberalized so much, while most other public attitudes have remained relatively stable. The book explores the roles of a variety of actors in this drama. Social science research helped to shift elite opinion in ways that reduced the persecution of gays and lesbians. Gays and lesbians by the hundreds of thousands responded to a less repressive environment by coming out of the closet. Straight people started to know the gay and lesbian people in their lives, and their view of gay rights shifted accordingly. Same-sex couples embarked on years-long legal struggles to try to force states to recognize their marriages. In courtrooms across the U.S. social scientists behind a new consensus about the normalcy of gay couples and the health of their children won victories over fringe scholars promoting discredited antigay views. In a few short years marriage equality, which had once seemed totally unrealistic, became realistic. And then almost as soon as it was realistic, marriage equality became a reality.

“Does Everybody Want the Hollywood Fairytale?” Same-Sex Couples Hinting at the Second Demographic Transition in Brazil

This article examines same-sex couples as a sign of the Second Demographic Transition, investigating how gay and lesbian couples living together in Brasília build their family, whether they intend to have children, and what challenges they face. We conducted semi-structured interviews online to investigate the family formation process and parenting intentions of 42 couples living together in Brasília in 2019, 20 lesbian and 22 gay couples. The organizing themes in the interviews were marriage, children, work, and stigma. This study advances existing scholarship on families by articulating points of connection between the legal institution of same-sex marriage in Brazil, changing social norms regarding family life, and parental gender expectations as signs of the Second Demographic Transition. Studying same-sex couples contribute to a more complex understanding of the family, the gendered division of labor, and the dimension of fertility and parenting intentions.

Teknik Penggambaran Aktor Terkait Perundungan Pasangan Gay Thailand di Koran Digital Indonesia

Actors Representation Technique Related to Thai Gay Couples Bullying in Indonesian Digital Newspapers ABSTRAKMedia sudah semakin mudah membuat dan menyebarkan berita karena kemajuan teknologi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ada atau tidaknya teknik yang digunakan oleh 5 koran digital Indonesia dalam mengeluarkan dan menggambarkan aktor atau peristiwa terkait pemberitaan perundungan pasangan gay Thailand oleh netizen Indonesia dan memaparkan teknik apa saja yang digunakan oleh 5 koran digital Indonesia itu. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dan menggunakan teori analisis wacana kritis model Theo van Leeuwen. Penelitian ini menemukan teknik eksklusi berupa pasivasi 4 data dan nominasi 2 data, serta teknik inklusi berupa diferensiasi-indifernsiasi 1 data, objektivitas-abstraksi 4 data, nominasi-kategorisasi 2 data, nominasi-identifikasi 1 data, determinasi-indeterminasi 3 data, asimilasi-individualisasi 3 data dan asosiasi-disosiasi 1 data.Kata kunci: Analisis wacama kritis, Theo van Leeuwen, eksklusi, inklusiABSTRACTThe media has become easier to create and spread news because of technological advances. This research aims to determine whether or not there are techniques used by 5 Indonesian digital newspapers are available in issuing and describing actors or events related to the news of Thai gay couples bullying by Indonesian netizens and to explain what techniques are used by the 5 Indonesian digital newspapers. The method used is descriptive qualitative and uses critical discourse analysis theory by Theo van Leeuwen's model. This study found exclusion techniques in the form of 4 data passivation and 2 data nominations, as well as inclusion techniques in the form of 1 data differentiation-indifferentiation, 4 data objectivity-abstraction, 2 data nominations-categorization, 1 data nomination-identification, 3 data determination-indertermination, 3 data assimilation- individualization and 1 data association-dissociation.Keyword: critical discourse analysis, Theo van Leeuwen, exclusion, inclusion

“Making do with things we cannot change”: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of relationship resilience among gay men in Singapore

Despite evolving social and political attitudes, many countries, including Singapore, still do not recognize couples in same-sex relationships. Much remains to be understood about the processes and strategies that help these couples maintain their relationships, especially in Asian societies. This study explored the ways in which gay men in intimate relationships safeguarded their relationships and remained resilient in Singapore. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine gay men in long-term relationships. The data were analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis. The analysis generated three superordinate themes, a) Making do with things we cannot change, b) Remaining resilient through social and financial capital, and c) Our love is stronger than the challenges we face. The emergent themes pointed to the ways in which participants coped with or shielded themselves against socio-political stressors that negatively impacted their relationships in the Singapore context. While some participants sought solace in families of choice, many learned to accept socio-political situations beyond their control. Most participants made do with implicit recognition as they were unwilling to disrupt social harmony. Others used their financial security to overcome structural barriers such as obtaining legal elements of heterosexual marriage. Findings may further current understanding of the ways in which gay couples remain resilient despite the relational challenges in different cultural contexts.

Queered online pandemic relationships: Mobile expressions of intimacies, care, and emotion work

Drawing from the assumptions on queer and mobile intimacy, emotion work, and care, this paper explores the role of mobile communication platform access and use among Filipino gay couples who have been physically separated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper looks at in-depth narratives of 24 gay men whose romances have been transferred to and transformed by messaging apps due to the pandemic. The accounts of these gay couples represent the realities of cosmopolitan gay men in negotiating digital romantic presence as they manage connection despite the distance. Mobile technologies have deepened the synchronous and asynchronous rituals of maneuvering romance as couples manage imagined emphatic romances. The participants’ descriptions revealed queered technology-use in bridging and maintaining imagined intimacies while feeling trapped in the dependence on mediated means of enacting such intimacies.

Gay Male Couples and LAT

This chapter discusses ways in which LAT functions differently among same-sex couples, based on interviews with gay couples in New York City. Gay couples, for example, are rarely monogamous. Yet many of the gay LATs are in fact legally married, though continuing to live apart in the same city.

Aging in Context: The Past, Present, and Future of Research on Older Adults’ Social Ties

This symposium will examine positive and negative aspects of older adults’ relationships and their impacts on health and well-being. We will begin by reviewing the past decade of research on family gerontology. Seidel’s meta-analysis of 995 articles will identify prominent theories and methods, as well as remaining research gaps. The subsequent presentations provide current, cutting-edge research. Marini examines how associations between rumination and sleep unfold within a social context. The findings highlight how spousal support protects older adults’ sleep quality from rumination, whereas support from family and friends is vulnerable to rumination. Using an actor-partner approach, Novak investigates the dynamics of support and control on health among older gay couples. Results reveal the benefits of support and risks of control for partners’ diet quality and depression. Ermer adopts a dyadic perspective to examine links between self-perceptions of aging and inflammation. Results highlight how wives’ inflammation is sensitive to husbands’ aging perceptions, particularly if marital strain is low. Finally, Wilson characterizes age-graded patterns of relationship narratives and their protective effects on emotional well-being. The findings demonstrate how older-adult couples’ narratives are less self- and present-focused, which helps explain protective linkages between age and negative mood. The symposium will conclude with remarks from discussant Katherine Fiori, a GSA Fellow and internationally recognized scholar on older adults’ social networks. She will synthesize the research and put forth her new theory about the importance of peripheral ties in later life to help direct the future of research on older adults within a social context.

Eskridge, J., concurring in the judgment.

We struggle in this case with the application of equal protection principles to evolving American family law. The challengers—committed lesbian and gay couples, many of them raising children—want the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee to recognize their existing committed family relationships as civil marriages. The states respond that these petitions ask this Court to ...