1st Edition
Queer Activism After Marriage Equality
Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Section 1: Examining the Mainstream LGBT Movement
Chapter 1: LGBTQ Politics After Marriage: A panel discussion with Gabriel Foster, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Robyn Ochs, Steven Thrasher, Urvashi Vaid, and Hari Ziyad
Chapter 2: Ga(y)tekeeping Identity, Citizenship & Claims to Justice: Freedom to Serve’, ‘Freedom to Marry’, and the U.S. Thirst for Good Gay Subjects
by Chriss V. Sneed
Chapter 3: What’s Love Got to do With It: Queer Politics and the "Love Pivot"
by Myrl Beam
Section 2: New Social Movements
Chapter 4: A New Queer Liberation Movement: The Targets of Influence, Mobilization, and Benefits of a New Social Movement
by Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis
Chapter 5: "This is the Freedom Ride We Are Taking": An Interview with the Audre Lorde Project’s Cara Page
by Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis
Chapter 6: "Building the World That We Want to Live In": An Interview with Jennicet Gutierrez & Jorge Gutierrez from Familia: TQLM
by Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis
Chapter 7: Putting the T back in LGBTQ? Trans Activism and Interests After Marriage Equality
by Courtenay W. Daum
Chapter 8: Centering Intersectional Politics: Queer Migration Activisms ‘After Marriage’
by Siobhán McGuirk, Jara M. Carrington, Claudia Cojocaru, Jamila Hammami, Marzena Zukowska
Section 3: Transnational Perspectives
Chapter 9: After Marriage, Redefining Freedom in the Crosshairs of Empire and Dictatorship: Observations towards a new politics of sexuality
by Raha Iranian Feminist Collective
Chapter 10: Between Secularism and Pro-Islamism: A Historical Review of LGBT Activism During the Pro-Islam JDP Rule in Turkey
by Caner Hazar
Chapter 11: French LGBT Activism After Marriage
by Hugo Bouvard
Chapter 12: Queering the Indignadxs Movement in Spain: Conflicts, resistances and collective learnings
by Gracia Trujillo
Index
Biography
Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis is the founder and former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, and worked as an activist for over two decades. He is currently Assistant Professor of Social Work at Seattle University, U.S.A., and has written about queer social movements, poverty, and marriage politics.
Michael W. Yarbrough is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose work explores the intersection of law, culture, and family. He is Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Political Science Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), U.S.A., and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, U.S.A. Her research interests include African American political thought and protest, gender, and sexuality. Jones is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals.
"Queer Activism After Marriage Equality delivers an urgent, necessary and galvanizing message: To build the vital intersectional social justice movement we need now, we must move beyond the limits of mainstream LGBT politics and build on our grass roots organizations, our queer of color leadership, and our focus on economic justice. The smart, provocative essays in this book are required reading for our current political emergency."
Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA
"Unlike any collection I have seen, Queer Activism After Marriage Equality offers at once an excellent primer for students new to critiques of the gay marriage movement and an illuminating reader for activists and scholars immersed in those debates. This volume importantly captures the creativity and vitality of radical social movements that have operated in the shadows of corporate-sponsored organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign."
Hiram Perez, Associate Professor of English, Vassar College, USA and author of A Taste for Brown Bodies
