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OverviewThe right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that once seemed unfathomable-and for many gays and lesbians undesirable-became a legal and moral right in just half a century. Awakening begins in the 1950s, when millions of gays and lesbians were afraid to come out, let alone fight for equality. Across the social upheavals of the next two decades, a gay rights movement emerged with the rising awareness of the equal dignity of same-sex love. A cadre of LGBTQ lawyers soon began to focus on legal recognition for same-sex couples, if not yet on marriage itself. It was only after being pushed by a small set of committed lawyers and grassroots activists that established movement groups created a successful strategy to win marriage in the courts. Marriage equality proponents then had to win over members of their own LGBTQ community who declined to make marriage a priority, while seeking to rein in others who charged ahead heedless of their carefully laid plans. All the while, they had to fight against virulent antigay opponents and capture the American center by spreading the simple message that love is love, ultimately propelling the LGBTQ community-and America-immeasurably closer to justice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathaniel FrankPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: The Belknap Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.848kg ISBN: 9780674737228ISBN 10: 0674737229 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 24 April 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsNathaniel Frank has written the much-needed definitive history of how gay people and gay lawyers fought for the right to marry and won. It s a story of courage, determination, and lots of smart strategizing, very much worth telling for its own sake, and full of key lessons for other social movements.--Emily Bazelon, Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, Yale Law School, and author of <i>Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy</i> Nathaniel Frank has written the much-needed definitive history of how gay people and gay lawyers fought for the right to marry and won. It s a story of courage, determination, and lots of smart strategizing, very much worth telling for its own sake, and full of key lessons for other social movements.</p>--Emily Bazelon, author of <i>Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy</i> Author InformationNathaniel Frank is Director of the What We Know Project at Columbia Law School. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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