LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader

Cover -- LGBTQ POLITICS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: BUILDING LGBTQ MOVEMENTS -- 2. Rethinking GLBT as a Political Category in U.S. Politics -- 3. Politics outside the Law: Transgender Lives and the Challenge of Legibility -- 4. The Treatment and Prevention of HIV Bodies: The Contemporary Politics and Science of a Thirty-Year-Old Epidemic -- 5. Queering Reproductive Justice: Toward a Theory and Praxis for Building Intersectional Political Alliances -- 6. The "B" Isn't Silent: Bisexual Communities and Political Activism -- 7. Embodying Margin to Center: Intersectional Activism among Queer Liberation Organizations -- 8. From "Don't Drop the Soap" to PREA Standards: Reducing Sexual Victimization of LGBT People in the Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems -- PART II: LGBTQ POLITICS IN THE DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 9. Our Stories -- 10. The Politics of LGBTQ Politics in APSA: A History (and Its) Lesson(s) -- 11. Power, Politics, and Difference in the American Political Science Association: An Intersectional Analysis of the New Orleans Siting Controversy -- 12. Where Has the Field Gone? An Investigation of LGBTQ Political Science Research -- 13. Unfulfilled Promises: How Queer Feminist Political Theory Could Transform Political Science -- PART III: LGBTQ POLITICS AND PUBLIC OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES -- 14. The How, Why, and Who of LGBTQ "Victory": A Critical Examination of Change in Public Attitudes Involving LGBTQ People -- 15. Equality or Transformation? LGBT Political Attitudes and Priorities and the Implications for the Movement -- 16. Case Studies of Black Lesbian and Gay Candidates: Winning Identity Politics in the Obama Era -- 17. Equality in the House: The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and the Substantive Representation of LGBTQ Interests.

A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics From Harvey Milk to ACT UP to Proposition 8, no political change in the last two decades has been as rapid as the advancement of civil rights for LGBTQ people. As we face a critical juncture in progressive activism, political science, which has been slower than most disciplines to study the complexity of queer politics, must grapple with the shifting landscape of LGBTQ rights and inclusion. LGBTQ Politics analyzes both the successes and obstacles to building the LGBTQ movement over the past twenty years, offering analyses that point to possibilities for the movement's future. Essays cover a range of topics, including activism, law, and coalition-building, and draw on subfields such as American politics, comparative politics, political theory, and international relations. LGBTQ Politics presents the full range of methodological, ideological, and substantive approaches to LGBTQ politics that exist in political science. Analyses focused on mainstream institutional and elite politics appear alongside contributions grounded in grassroots movements and critical theory. While some essays celebrate the movement's successes and prospects, others express concerns that its democratic basis has become undermined by a focus on funding power over people power, attempts to fragment the LGBTQ movement from racial, gender and class justice, and a persistent attachment to single-issue politics. A comprehensive, thought-provoking collection, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader will give rise to continued critical discussion of the parameters of LGBTQ politics

Rethinking glbt as a political category in U.S. politics / Zein Murib -- Politics outside the law : transgender lives and the challenge of legibility / B Lee Aultman and Paisley Currah -- The treatment and prevention of HIV bodies : the contemporary politics and science of a thirty-year-old epidemic / J. Ricky Price -- Queering reproductive justice : toward a theory and practice for building intersectional political alliances / Kimala Price -- The "b" isn't silent : bisexual communities and political activism / Charles Anthony Smith, Shawn Schulenberg, and Eric A. Baldwin -- Embodying margin to center : intersectional activism among queer liberation organizations / Joseph N. DeFilippis and Ben Anderson-Nathe -- From "don't drop the soap" to PREA standards : reducing sexual victimization of LGBT people in the juvenile and criminal justice systems / Sean Cahill -- The politics of the politics and sexuality section / Angelia R. Wilson -- The politics of the LGBT caucus : a history and its lessons / Martha Ackelsberg -- Power, politics, and difference in the American Political Science Association : an intersectional analysis of the New Orleans siting controversy / Susan Burgess and Anna Sampaio -- Where has the field gone? : an investigation of LGBTQ political science research / Barry L. Tadlock and Jami K. Taylor -- Unfulfilled promises : how queer feminist political theory could transform political science / Jyl Josephson and Thaøs Marques -- The how, why, and who of LGBTQ "victory" : a critical examination of change in public attitudes involving LGBTQ people / Jeremiah J. Garretson -- Equality or transformation? : LGBT political attitudes and priorities and the implications for the movement / Donald P. Haider-Markel and Patrick R. Miller -- Case studies of black lesbian and gay candidates : winning identity politics in the Obama era / Ravi K. Perry and X. Loudon Manley -- Equality in the House : the congressional LGBT equality caucus and the substantive representation of LGBTQ interests / Paul Snell -- Gay and lesbian candidates, group stereotypes, and the news media : an experimental design / Mandi Bates Bailey and Steven P. Nawara -- Marriage equality : assimilationist victory or pluralist defeat? / Courtenay W. Daum -- The state of marriage? : how sociolegal context affects why same-sex couples marry / Ellen Ann Andersen -- Queer sensibilities and other fagchild tools / Jerry D. Thomas -- You don't belong here, either : same-sex marriage politics and LGBT/Q youth homelessness activism in Chicago / Jason Stodolka -- Political science and the study of LGBT social movements in the global South / Julie Moreau -- Homonationalism and the comparative politics of LBTB rights / Miriam Smith -- Top down, bottom up, or meeting in the middle? : the U.S. government in international LGBTQ human rights advocacy / Cynthia Burack -- Pink links : visualizing the global LGBTQ network / Christina Kiel and Megan E. Osterbur -- Whither the LBBTQ movement in a post/civil rights era? / Gary Mucciaroni -- Scouting for normalcy : merit badges, cookies, and American futurity / Judy Rohrer -- Queering the feminist dollar : a history and consideration of the Third Wave Fund as activist philanthropy / Melissa Meade and Rye Young -- Single-sex colleges and transgender discrimination : the politics of checking a "male" or "female" box to get into college / Heath Fogg Davis