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AbstractLesbian and gay rights are argued as rights to privacy, rights to protection from violence, rights to equality as individuals, rights to equality as family units, rights of minorities or as part of a larger framework of the recognition of sexual diversity within the society. In the last decades Canadian law has recognized equality claims, first through the reform of antidiscrimination laws and later through the interpretation of the equality provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The major current issue, important because it involves lesbian and gay visibility, is the recognition of same-sex couples for the range of rights, obligations and benefits connected with marriage or heterosexual cohabitation. Recognition is occurring through ad hoc reforms, often in response to litigation or to decisions of human rights tribunals.

A stronger conception of lesbian & gay rights is needed than is offered under the rubrics of liberty & of the right of privacy. Lesbian & gay rights are analyzed in terms of claims for: (1) the decriminalization of private, consensual homosexual acts between adults; (2) protection against invidious discrimination; & (3) the recognition of the ethical & social status of lesbian & gay relationships & associations. A political-ethical framework in which conceptions of autonomy, equality, & community are mutually developed is provided, & the uses & limits of privacy, the individual liberty vs community morality debate, constitutional morality, & the ambiguities of community are discussed. It is concluded that the respect for human equality & moral autonomy that underlies claims of individual rights locates persons in diverse & interacting social contexts & insists on the primacy of mutual respect as the governing norm encompassing community of right. D. Dennis

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Making Justice -- 1. Injury -- 2. Counsel -- 3. Guardians -- 4. Injunction -- 5. Hearing -- 6. Continued Hearing -- 7. Appeal -- 8. Publicity -- 9. Petition -- 10. New Trial -- 11. Judgments -- 12. Remedy -- Conclusion: Remaking Justice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

This book examines why the US and Canada have produced such divergent policy outcomes in affording rights to their gay and lesbian citizens. Smith's contribution will prove vital as movements for lesbian and gay rights continue to recast the social landscape in North America and beyond.

A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean?one of the most influential political strategists ever to lobby Washington DC!Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress is the spirited and provocative memoir that blows the lid off the complex machinations of state and national politics. LGBT activist Steve Endean's autobiographical chronicle, completed shortly before his death in 1993, tells insider stories that are sometimes rousing, other times infuriating, recounting the fight for lesbian and gay rights from the trenches of the Minnesota state capital to the