1st Edition

Justice After Stonewall LGBT Life Between Challenge and Change

Edited By Paul Behrens, Sean Becker Copyright 2023
364 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

364 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Justice After Stonewall is an interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and progress experienced by the LGBT community since the Stonewall riots in 1969. The riots (sparked by a police raid in New York City) are a milestone in LGBT history. Within a short time, a new feeling of confidence emerged, manifested in new LGBT organisations and the first Pride marches. Legal and social change followed:... Read more

Foreword

Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon

Introduction 

1. From Stonewall to the World: The Difficult Path to Recognition

Paul Behrens and Sean Becker

Part 1 – Justice After Stonewall? Aspects of Political and Social Acceptance 

2. Challenges Past and Present: Political and Social Perspectives

Sean Becker and Paul Behrens 

3. The Development of the LGBT+ Community in the UK in the Last 50 Years

Sir Stephen Wall 

4. LGBT+ Youth Homelessness as a Consequence of Progress

Carin Tunåker 

5. The LGBTI Movement Organising in a Time of Peril: A Case Study of Uganda

Clare Byarugaba 

6. 'That's Really Why I Got Married I Guess': Heteronormativity and Openness about Same-Sex Coupledom

Dora Jandrić

Part 2 – LGBT Rights Facing New Challenges 

7. A Landscape of Change: Legal Perspectives

Paul Behrens and Sean Becker 

8. The Evolution of LGBT Rights in the UK: Is the Tide Starting to Turn?

Carolynn Gray 

9. In the Name of the People? Plebiscites, Referendums and Same-Sex Marriage

Paul Behrens 

10. The Intrinsic Value of Registered Partnerships and Marriage for Same-Sex Couples, their Recognition Domestically and at the Strasbourg Court

Helen Fenwick and Andy Hayward 

11. Changing Perceptions of Homosexuality as Revealed by the Law of Defamation in Scotland

Kenneth McK. Norrie 

12. 'Lewd, Disgusting and Offensive': A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Law Lords' Ideologies Toward Homosexuality between 1967 and 2004

Sean Becker

Part 3 – The Continued Struggle for Equality: LGBT Students, Identity and Language 

13. Living Identity: Perspectives from the Fields of Education and Language

Sean Becker and Paul Behrens 

14. Embedding LGBT Equality in the Curriculum and the Classroom

Eleanor Capaldi and Amanda Sykes 

15. Investigating the Experiences of Transgender Students in Higher Education in the UK – Pilot Study

Lynne Regan 

16. Queerly Fluent / Fluently Queer: On (Re)Creating Shared Identities in Second and Third Languages Among Migrant LGBTQ Populations in the Arabian Peninsula

Gaar Adams 

Part 4 – Between Disenfranchisement and Inclusion: The LGBT Community and the Medical Sector 

17. Changing Science and the Science of Change: Medical Perspectives

Paul Behrens and Sean Becker 

18. Disenfranchisement in British Healthcare: Being a Lesbian Non-Biological Mother

Lucille Kelsall-Knight and Ceri Sudron 

19. False Therapy, Real Harm: Aspects of Conversion Practices and their Evaluation

Paul Behrens

Part 5 – Faith and Justice: Religion and the LGBT Community 

20. Between Understanding and Inclusion: Religious Perspectives

Paul Behrens and Sean Becker 

21. Jewish Approaches to LGBT+ in Texts, Culture and Ritual

Rabbi Mark L. Solomon and Hannah Holtschneider 

22. Tradition and Transition: Methodological Approaches to LGBT Issues in Roman Catholic Theology After Pope Francis

Nicolete Burbach 

23. Is there a Space to Fight Back? Exclusionary Queer and Islamic Spaces and Resistance from Queer Muslims

Drew Dalton

Concluding Thoughts 

24. Stonewall at Fifty: Between Hope and Challenge

Sean Becker and Paul Behrens

Biography

Dr Paul Behrens is Reader (Associate Professor) in Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, UK. He is Member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Scottish Parliament on Ending Conversion Practices and has published several books on international law.

Sean Becker previously taught as a docent at the University of Amsterdam’s PPLE College. He is currently pursuing postgraduate studies at Columbia Law School, New York, and the University of Amsterdam.