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The Marrying Kind?Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement$
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The Marrying Kind?: Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement

Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780816681716

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816681716.001.0001

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The Long Journey to Marriage

The Long Journey to Marriage

Same-Sex Marriage, Assimilation, and Resistance in the Heartland

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(p.263) 7 The Long Journey to Marriage
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The Marrying Kind?
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Melanie Heath

Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816681716.003.0008

Melanie Heath explores the deeply personal stories of Oklahoma couples who traveled to San Francisco to marry in 2004. She finds that rather than using marriage as a way to assimilate into dominant heterosexual culture, lesbian and gay couples viewed marrying as a political act to resist conservative backlash and discrimination in an environment that is decidedly not post-gay.

Keywords:   Same sex marriage, LGBT movement, lesbian and gay couples, queer theory, post-gay identity, anti-same sex marriage initiatives, same sex marriage and the law, same sex marriage protests, San Francisco same sex wedding protest, Proposition 8

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