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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

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Investigating Lesbian and Gay Activism -- PART I LESBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM THROUGH TIME -- 1 Sodomy, Effeminacy, Identity: Mobilizations for Same-sexual Loves and Practices before the Second World War -- 2 The Homophile Movement -- 3 Gay Liberation and its Legacies -- 4 AIDS Activism from North to Global -- 5 Queer Movement -- PART II IDENTITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 6 LGBT Identity and the Displacement of Sexual Liberation: New York City (1969–1986) -- 7 The Spatial Politics of Gay Pride Parades and Festivals: Emotional Activism -- 8 Lesbians, Second-Wave Feminism and Gay Liberation -- 9 People of Color Mobilization in LGBT Movements in the Netherlands and the United States -- 10 Inside or Outside? Bisexual Activism and the LGBTI Community -- 11 Trans Activism and LGB Movements: Odd Bedfellows? -- PART III SOCIAL MOVEMENT ENVIRONMENT -- 12 Political Institutions and LGBTQ Activism in Comparative Perspective -- 13 Lesbian and Gay Rights and the Courts -- 14 "Lesbian and gay rights are human rights": Multiple Globalizations and LGBTI Activism -- 15 Caught in a Web? The Internet and Deterritorialization of LGBT Activism -- 16 Faith and Religion -- 17 Neoliberalism, Citizenship and Activism -- PART IV CLAIMS AND DEBATES -- 18 Decriminalizing Homosexuality: Gaining Rights through Sodomy Law Reform -- 19 SM Politics, SM Communities in the United States -- 20 Same-sex Partnership and Marriage: The Success and Costs of Transnational Activism -- 21 Rainbow Families and the State: How Policies Shape Reproductive Choices -- Afterword Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in the Radical Queer Western Era

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.

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

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.