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Justice After Stonewall LGBT Life Between Challenge and Change
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: from the decriminalisation of homosexual activities to anti-discrimination laws and the legalisation of same-sex marriage. This makes it tempting to think of modern LGBT history as an unequivocal success story. But progress was not achieved everywhere: in 70 States, same-sex relations are still criminalised; violence against LGBT persons still occurs, and transgender people still struggle to have their rights recognised.
The question whether the path since Stonewall represents success or failure cannot be answered by one discipline alone. This book breaks new ground by bringing together experts from politics, sociology, law, education, language, medicine and religion to discuss fields as diverse as same-sex marriage, transgender students, the LGBT movement in Uganda and LGBT migrants in the Arabian Peninsula, conversion 'therapy', and approaches to LGBT matters in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. What emerges is a rich tapestry of LGBT life today and its consideration from numerous perspectives.
Based on thorough research, this book is an ideal text for students and scholars exploring LGBT matters. At the same time, its engaging style makes it a particularly valuable resource for anyone with an interest in LGBT matters and their reception in today's world.
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.
