Why Marriage: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465009581 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nevertheless, this is a swell, partisan, but not particularly argumentative U.S. gay-rights history primer, which makes at least two big points that need to be common knowledge. The first is that active antigay repression is largely a twentieth-century phenomenon; strong antigay law enforcement and many of the laws themselves date from the 1930s and became harsher and spread after World War II. All rights reserved. From Booklist Chauncey says this short book, written on a three-month deadline and between two long-gestating big books, was a challenge, and his strain shows in some poor and question-begging wording. The other is that marriage became a primary gay-rights goal because of AIDS and gay efforts to adop
"Why Marriage? The history shaping today's debate over gay equality" according to K. Pumphrey. Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality written by George Chauncey describes the history that has set the stage for the debate over gay marriage today. The book begins with a history of gay and lesbian individuals in the US and their struggle to enter and gain acceptance in the public sphere. Up until the 19Why Marriage? The history shaping today's debate over gay equality Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality written by George Chauncey describes the history that has set the stage for the debate over gay marriage today. The book begins with a history of gay and lesbian individuals in the US and their struggle to enter and gain acceptance in the public sphere. Up until the 1930s during the great depression gay and lesbians were not viewed with such critique and . 0s during the great depression gay and lesbians were not viewed with such critique and . Discover Gay History I'm a gay man who learned a lot about gay history from this book. The book describes the forgotten period at the beginning of the century when gays enjoyed an environment of relative freedom and then follows the severe crackdown on gays in the middle of the century (the viciousness of this period is also forgotten). Then he explains how this history promoted the emergence of gay marriage as a rallying issue for the gay r. A Whole New Perspective On the Issue of Gay Marriage! Amy Hartman George Chauncey gives a detailed argument in support of same-sex marriage in his book, "Why Marriage." First of all, Chauncey introduces the issue of same-sex marriage on a positive note of writing how much society has progressed in its opinions of same-sex marriage and other gay issues. Chauncey then begins the book with a history of the struggle for not only same-sex marriage, but also gay rights as a whole. The exampl
Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. George Chauncey offers an electrifying analysis of the history of the shifting attitudes of heterosexual Americans toward gay people, from the dramatic growth in acceptance to the many campaigns against gay rights that form the background to today's demand for a constitutional amendment. Chauncey illuminates what's at stake for both sides of this contentious debate in this essential book for gay and straight readers alike.. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives and works in Chicago.. He testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination at the 1993 trial of Colorado's Amendment Two, which resulted in the Supreme Court's Romer v. Texas (2003). Evans decision that antigay rights referenda were unconstitutional, and he was the principal author of the Historians' Amicus Brief, which weighed heavily in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overtur