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"The book explores the role that LGBT rights activism directed at corporations and corporate activism on behalf of sexual orientation and gender identity equality have played in the LGBT movement's pursuit of political, legal, and social objectives from the Stonewall era until today"--

Moral displacement and obscenity law -- Coming together and free expression -- Coming out and free expression -- Activism in and out of the courts -- The race and gender precedents -- LGBT equality and the right to exclude -- Marriage equality and religious liberty

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Will Victory Bring Change? A Mature Social Movement Faces the Future -- 2. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Slow Forward Dance of LGBT Rights in America -- 3. Still Not Equal: A Report from the Red States -- 4. LGBT Elders: Making the Case for Equity in Aging -- 5. Marriage as Blindspot: What Children with LGBT Parents Need Now -- 6. A New Stage for the LGBT Movement: Protecting Gender and Sexual Multiplicities -- 7. A More Promiscuous Politics: LGBT Rights without the LGBT Rights -- 8. Diverging Identities: Gender Differences and LGBT Rights -- 9. What Marriage Equality Teaches Us: The Afterlife of Racism and Homophobia -- 10. Canadian LGBT Politics after Marriage -- 11. The Pitfalls of Normalization: The Dutch Case and the Future of Equality -- 12. The Power of Theory: Same-Sex Marriage, Education, and Gender Panic in France -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized by those who believe marriage rights were a conservative cause overshadowed a host of more important issues. Now that nationwide marriage equality is a reality, everyone who cares about LGBT rights must grapple with how best to promote the interests of sexual and gender identity minorities in a society that permits same-sex couples to marry. This book brings together twelve original essays by leading scholars of law, politics, and society to address the most important question facing the LGBT movement today: What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? After Marriage Equality, The Future of LGBT Rights explores crucial and wide-ranging social, political, and legal issues confronting the LGBT movement, including the impact of marriage equality on political activism and mobilization, antidiscrimination laws, transgender rights, LGBT elders, parenting laws and policies, religious liberty, sexual autonomy, and gender and race differences. The book also looks at how LGBT movements in other nations have responded to the recognition of same-sex marriages, and what we might emulate or adjust in our own advocacy. Aiming to spark discussion and further debate regarding the challenges and possibilities of the LGBT movement's future, After Marriage Equality will be of interest to anyone who cares about the future of sexual equality. -- from dust jacket.

In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical frameworks fit the specific gay rights controversies, such as same-sex marriage and parenting by lesbians and gay men, that are part of our nation's political and legal debates

In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical frameworks fit the specific gay rights controversies, such as same-sex marriage and parenting by lesbians and gay men, that are part of our nation's political and legal debates.

For several years now, a group of prominent religious liberty scholars in the United States have been defending what they call a "live-and-let-live" approach to accommodating religious dissent in the era of marriage equality. The proposed approach calls on the state to avoid taking sides on contested moral issues when individuals of faith claim that their religious beliefs require them to refrain from facilitating marriages by same-sex couples. The objective, it is argued, is to adopt policies that allow both sides to live according to their values. This article critiques the "live-and-let-live" solution to religious exemptions from LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) equality measures by focusing on questions of harms. It argues that the proposed approach calls for a weighing of harms that is largely unprecedented in the history of American antidiscrimination law and problematic in its own right. The article also explains that the approach is premised on questionable assumptions and predictions about the absence of any meaningful harm to LGBT individuals when business owners provide goods and services to the general public, but refuse to do so for same-sex couples on religious grounds.