Queer Activism After Marriage Equality focuses on the implications of legal same-sex marriage for LGBTQ social movements and organizing. It asks how the agendas, strategies, structures and financing of LGBTQ movement organizations are changing now that same-sex marriage is legal in some countries.

Building on a major conference held in 2016 entitled "After Marriage: The Future of LGBTQ Politics and Scholarship," this collection draws from critical and intersectional perspectives to explore the questions and issues facing the next chapter of LGBTQ activism and social movement work. It comprises academic papers, international case studies, edited transcripts of selected conference sessions, and interviews with activists. These take a critical look at the high-profile work of national and state-wide equality organizations, analyzing the costs of winning marriage equality and what that has meant for other LGBTQ activism. In addition to this, the book examines other forms of queer activism that have existed for years in the shadows of the marriage equality movement, as well as new social movements that have developed more recently. Finally, it looks to examples of activism in other countries and considers lessons U.S. activists can learn from them.

By presenting research on these and other trends, this volume helps translate queer critiques advanced during the marriage campaigns into a framework for ongoing critical research in the after-marriage period.

About the Author

Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis is the founder and former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, and worked as an activist for over two decades. He is currently Assistant Professor of Social Work at Seattle University, U.S.A., and has written about queer social movements, poverty, and marriage politics.

Michael W. Yarbrough is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose work explores the intersection of law, culture, and family. He is Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Political Science Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), U.S.A., and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, U.S.A. Her research interests include African American political thought and protest, gender, and sexuality. Jones is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Reviews

"Queer Activism After Marriage Equality delivers an urgent, necessary and galvanizing message: To build the vital intersectional social justice movement we need now, we must move beyond the limits of mainstream LGBT politics and build on our grass roots organizations, our queer of color leadership, and our focus on economic justice. The smart, provocative essays in this book are required reading for our current political emergency."

Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA

"Unlike any collection I have seen, Queer Activism After Marriage Equality offers at once an excellent primer for students new to critiques of the gay marriage movement and an illuminating reader for activists and scholars immersed in those debates. This volume importantly captures the creativity and vitality of radical social movements that have operated in the shadows of corporate-sponsored organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign."

Hiram Perez, Associate Professor of English, Vassar College, USA and author of A Taste for Brown Bodies

Book Information
ISBN 9781138557505
Author Joseph DeFilippis
Format Paperback
Page Count 202
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 360g