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"The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research."--Publisher's description

This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.

This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.

This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.

Preliminary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Fear and Morality -- 1. The 'Homosexual Cancer': AIDS = gay -- 2. Innocent Identities -- Part Two: (Mis)trust and Medicine -- 3. Public Health and AIDS Activism -- 4. Treatment Action -- Part Three: Grief and Activism -- 5. Rites of Belonging: The AIDS Memorial Quilt -- Epilogue: Bug Chasers and Criminals -- Bibliography -- Biographies of Interviewees -- Index

While gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious right's Goliath. At the same time, the religious right has continuously and effectively countered the endeavors of lesbian and gay activists, working to repeal many of the laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and to progress a constitutional amendment "protecting" marriage. In this accessible and grounded work, Tina Fetner uncovers a remarkably complex relationship between the two movements--one that transcends politic

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Legato in Turkey: Literacy, Media, and Global Sexualities -- Legato Overview -- The Globalization of Lesbian and Gay Identities, Transnational Rhetorics, and Literacy -- Literacies and Sponsors: Sexuality, Community, and Technology -- Methodology and Chapter Descriptions -- 2: From Queer Empire to Heterosexual Republic: Modernity, Homosexuality, and Media -- The Complexity of Sexuality in the Middle East -- Same-Sex Desire and Practices in the Ottoman Empire -- Sexuality and Media in the Republic of Turkey -- The Emergence of Community Media: Kaos GL and Its Critique of Mass Media Representations of Homosexuality -- Collegiate Lesbian and Gay Visual Rhetoric -- Print Media and the Public's Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Turkey in the 2000s -- Media Representations and Lesbian and Gay Agency -- 3: Coming Out and Legato Members' Narratives of Sexual Literacy -- Methods -- Ünal -- Bilal -- Nalan -- Umut -- Deniz -- Gateways, Sponsors, and the Accumulation of Sexual Literacies -- The Gateways and Sponsors of Lesbian and Gay Literacies -- The Gateways and Sponsors of Heterosexual Literacy -- Coming Out, Literacy, and Community -- 4: Paper Tigers in Digital Closets? Lesbian and Gay Activism, the Internet, and Community Literacy -- Community, Literacy, and the Turkish Political Context -- Local LGBT Advocacy Organizations, Legato, and the Internet -- Zeynep: Kaos GL, Legato METU, and Daughters of Sappho -- Ünal: Kaos GL, Halega, Gay Ankara, and Legato -- Deniz: Lambda Istanbul and Legato -- Initiation and Membership at Established Organizations and the Origins of LGBT Students' Self-Organizing -- The Emergence of Subgroups (Computer-Mediated Initiation and Membership) and Their Internet-Mediated Positioning in Relation to the Host Organization.

AbstractThe increasing visibility of sexualities beyond heterosexual, gay/lesbian, and bisexual is often associated with progressive politics and the questioning of heteronormativity. Yet non‐majoritarian sexualities can also include self‐identifications premised upon an opposition to LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion, including those who identify as "ex‐gay." Drawing on fieldwork with evangelical Christian activists in London, UK, this paper uses a court case in which the "legality" of ex‐gay sexuality was contested to discuss the law's simultaneous desire and inability to render contested identities legally legible. In seeking recognition as a sexual minority, self‐described ex‐gay evangelicals reveal the inadequacy of modern law's efforts to regulate difference as either "innate" or "chosen," thus upsetting the terms of the hetero‐secular legal gaze even as they embrace heterosexual supremacy. As such, this activism, which is typically analyzed in terms of evangelicalism's commitment to heteronormativity, works to denaturalize the concept of sexual orientation(s)—including, I argue, the heterosexuality ex‐gay Christians pursue.

This study is aimed at gaining a better understanding of how people fight for change collectively in societies that, unlike the United States, have less of democratic processes, and fundamental civil-political rights, and, of how law matters to their processes of doing so. It focuses on a particular minority group, gay people, in one particular society - Singapore, an Asian country with shades of authoritarianism - and explored how gay activists make sense of their grievances, strategize and take action to achieve their goals, and evaluate their own efforts. Based on systematic collection and analysis of data, including in-depth interviews with 100 activists, the study found: Unlike what sociology of law has learned in the United States, law - in the form of legal rights - is neither a strategic nor symbolic resource for these activists. The role of law in collective fights for social change goes beyond that of rights, which are stymied by the very legal system set up by the powers in control. Gay activists in Singapore regard law as a key source of oppression that obstructs their movement. The ruling party, in control for the past 45 years, has used law's power of sanction and delegitimization not only to deter legally, but also to cultivate cultural norms that discourage its people from coming together to agitate for social change, to use rights, and to ask for change in the form of rights, which are painted as confrontational, and detrimental to their society's stability and economic progress.Hence, these activists focus on achieving social changes outside formal law, such as gaining acceptance from society at large, and the state to come out, speak out, and have their grievances heard, and to organize, and assemble more publicly as a group of people with shared concerns and interests. Rather than turning to the law to aid their cause, they resist it through "pragmatic resistance," a strategy that precariously balances movement survival, and advancement. To "live to fight another day," they abide by the law, and oppressive cultural norms so as to avoid legal sanctions that could lead to the repression of their movement, and demise of small gains already accumulated, thus reversing their hard work; meanwhile, to advance their goals, without changing formal law they imperceptibly push the boundaries of those cultural norms - which are backed by legal sanctions - on what are socially and politically acceptable. They are conscious of, and accept, their strategy as a trade-off between the accumulation of informal gains outside formal law, and the reification and reinforcement of legal power that perpetuates the cultural legitimacy of the existing political order.