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"The Evolution of Same-Sex Marriage Policy in the United States" published on by Oxford University Press.

Adopting the methods of institutional analysis and case law analysis, the paper answers how specific elements of rule of law backsliding impact advocacy for minorities' rights' recognition. The phenomenon is analysed in the case of Poland, a state that since 2015 has been experiencing directed erosion on rule of law standards. Between 2018 and 2020, governmental leaders in Poland targeted lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the context of electoral campaigns. The paper discusses long-term legal, political, and social factors contributing to creating an environment where such anti-LGBT campaigns are possible. It further demonstrates that specific elements of rule of law backsliding, such as politically subordinating the Constitutional Tribunal and the office of the Prosecutor General, enable authorities to apply discriminatory legal instruments to limit the targeted minority's rights and also make resistance to it with legal means more complex. Against this backdrop, the paper argues that human rights defenders' immediate responses—private civil lawsuits, artistic projects, and monitoring of discriminatory actions of the authorities—were key for drawing domestic and international attention to anti-LGBT campaigns, which later led to the European Union's institutions concrete actions and an independent Commissioner for Human Rights' legal actions. Cumulatively, these actions contributed to reversing elements of the anti-LGBT campaign in Poland.

Foreword / Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo -- Introduction -- PART 1: LGBTQ Voters 1. Profile of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Electorate in Canada / Andrea M.L. Perrella, Steven D. Brown, and Barry Kay 2. Winning as a Woman/Winning as a Lesbian: Voter Attitudes toward Kathleen Wynne in the 2014 Ontario Election / Joanna Everitt and Tracey Raney 3. Media Framing of Lesbian and Gay Politicians: Is Sexual Mediation at Work? / Mireille Lalancette and Manon Tremblay 4. Electing LGBT Representatives and the Voting System in Canada / Dennis Pilon -- PART 2: LGBTQ Representatives 5. LGBT Groups and the Canadian Conservative Movement: A New Relationship? / Frédéric Boily and Ève Robidoux-Descary 6. Liberalism and the Protection of LGBT Rights in Canada / Brooke Jeffrey 7. A True Match? The Federal New Democratic Party and LGBTQ Communities and Politics / Alexa DeGagne 8. Representation: The Case of LGBTQ People / Manon Tremblay 9. Pathway to Office: The Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, and Election of LGBT Candidates / Joanna Everitt, Manon Tremblay, and Angelia Wagner 10. LGBTQ Perspectives on Political Candidacy in Canada / Angelia Wagner 11. Out to Win: The ProudPolitics Approach to LGBTQ Electoralism / Curtis Atkins 12. LGBT Place Management: Representative Politics and Toronto's Gay Village / Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray -- Afterword: The Champion / Graeme Truelove -- Index

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Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty: The Production of an Islamic Backlash against Homosexuality in Turkey -- Who Killed Ahmet Y♯łld♯łz? -- Trans Terror, Deep Citizenship, and the Politics of Hate -- Critique and Commons under Neoliberal Islam -- Queer Studies and the Question of Cultural Difference -- On Method and Methodology.

Karma Chavez's forthcoming book, Queer Migration Politics, suggests that neither the inclusionary politics of the mainstream US LGBT rights movement nor the utopian turn in some queer theory sufficiently capture the possibilities for queer politics in this moment. Drawing on the rhetoric of activists working at the various intersections and convergences of queer and immigration rights and justice, Chávez advocates that coalition is a productive alternative to both inclusionary and utopian approaches, even as coalitional approaches sometimes draw upon them both. In this talk, Chavez sketches the main arguments in the book and discusses some of the key case studies from activist rhetoric in the contemporary United States. A podcast of the lecture can also be found on the Decolonizing Sexualitie Network website at http://www.decolonizingsexualities.org/karma-chavez-lecture/.

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.

The emergence of a movement for sexual minorities and its opposition in the United States -- Political theory -- Social movements, electoral politics, and public opinion -- Courts and the LGBT rights movement -- Public policies -- The transgender and intersex movements, law, and policy -- Global developments

"LGBTI Transnational Law: Sex as Crime, Violence as Control" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Out Lesbian and Gay Politicians in a Multiparty System" published on by Oxford University Press.

In this article, I examine the role of judicial narratives in constructing, constraining, & delimiting the boundaries of social scientific & expert knowledge -- specifically, in the context of gay & lesbian parents' custody & adoption cases. Examining not only the judicial narratives in appellate cases over the last fifty years in the United States, but also expert reports & briefs obtained from attorneys in these cases & interviews with judges, attorneys & litigants, I investigate the role of judicial narratives in adjudicating between competing social scientific claims about sexuality & child welfare, constructing expertise, & ultimately deciding what is valid knowledge & what is not. I focus specifically on the ways in which judges credit & discredit social scientific evidence, experts, & knowledge claims. The power of legal actors & particularly judges to police the boundaries of knowledge & expertise in the context of the custody case & the judicial narrative is complicated by the observation that this form of social scientific knowledge is not only the object acted upon & shaped by these power dynamics, but is also itself a source of power & legitimation. 42 References. [Copyright 2005 Elsevier Ltd.]

Is the feminist project under threat in Europe? This thematic issue addresses the question in both theoretical and empirical ways, focusing on the various ways in which feminist politics are opposed and why, on what the impact of such opposition is, and how to improve our theoretical understanding of this particular manifestation of gender and politics. The issue addresses three major challenges: a need to reflect on the most suited concepts and theories in political and social sciences to understand what is at stake in Europe today; a need to vernacularize existing knowledge while forging global frames of analysis; and a need to avoid the risk of reifying oppositional forces and of reiterating dichotomous frames and categories. The responses to these challenges are: to analyse the threats to the feminist project as parts of larger projects against social justice and equality; to contrast macro narratives by engaging with the microlevel of the anti-feminist project, enabling a critique of mainstream scholarship; to analyse the threats to the feminist project as related to processes of changes to democracy, such as democratic backsliding; to give prominent attention to discursive, epistemic and symbolic processes; and finally to include studies on the response of feminist actors to the threats experienced. This collection of articles offers a variety of perspectives on the various threats to the feminist project in Europe today.