Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0615392687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gay marriage is NOT a progressive, left-wing cause! wildflowerboy With essays by the likes of Kate Bornstein, Dean Spade, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, you know this is going to be a good book. The first part of a trilogy addressing the unholy trinity of gay marriage, gays in the military, and hate crime legislation, this book is a welcome contribution to the much needed discussion about the right. Petronius said Mystifying. One wonders what would possess gays to argue for the oppression of fellow gays. They seem to forget, no one is required to marry. However, many gays seek this right which the authors want to deny them. No issue ever put the gay civil rights agenda on the front pages and as lead stories of newscasts as has same sex marriage. This issue
In portable book form, the critical conversations that are happening so readily on the internet will no longer be withheld from those with little to no online access like queer and trans-prisoners, people of low income, rural folks and the technologically challenged.. While what feels like the entirety of the gay and lesbian movement in unison towards some vague notion of equality, the Against Equality collective has been quietly assembling a digital archive to document the critical resistance to the politics of inclusion. The pocket-sized book of archival texts lays out some of the historical foundations of queer resistance to the gay marriage mainstream alongside more contemporary inter-subjective critiques that deal directly with issues of race, class, gender, citizenship, age, ability, and more
The dichotomous engagement with the issue is damaging to the cohesion of the GLBTQ community and stops discussions short. As an alternative, it offers us the inspiring vision of a truly radical queer politics, devoted to attacking injustice, not just allowing a few more gay people to benefit from it." --Walter Benn Michaels, author of The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality. - Ericka Steckle, Bitch Magazine"Against Equality makes the powerful argument that same-sex marriage is an essentially conservative cause, an effort to prop up a fundamentally unfair system. Rather than being merely anti-marriage, the book deliberately articulates multiple alternative visions - such as building and valuing our own grassroots familia