Kathere McFarland; How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism By Ta Fetner Universy of Mnota Prs. 2008. 200 pag. $67.50 cloth, $22.50
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- HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM. BY TA FETNER. MNEAPOLIS, MN: UNIVERSY OF MNOTA PRS, 2008. XXIII + 156 PP. $67.50 CLOTH, $22.50 PAPER
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- HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM
HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM
In this accsible and ground work, Ta Fetner unvers a plex relatnship between the gay rights and relig right movements. She shows how gay activi... * how the religious right shaped lesbian and gay activism *
How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism on JSTOR. In this accsible and ground work, Ta Fetner unvers a plex relatnship between the gay rights and relig right movements.
HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM
Ta Fetner's tightly wrten monograph tells the story of two social movements, the gay and lbian movement and the relig right, om the middle through t * how the religious right shaped lesbian and gay activism *
She shows how gay activists and the relig right have tablished a symbtic relatnship which each si signifintly affects the velopment of s unterpart, monstratg how the ntent relatnship between the two movements challeng assumptns about how social movements are shaped by their rivals. Though social movement scholars have long regnized the importance of movement/untermovement dynamics gay and lbian rights activism, there have been few empiril studi available. How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism addrs this neglect and is both timely and signifint.
HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM
Ta Fetner's tightly wrten monograph tells the story of two social movements, the gay and lbian movement and the relig right, om the middle through t * how the religious right shaped lesbian and gay activism *
While gay rights are on the natnal agenda now, activists have spent s fightg for their platform, seeg themselv as David agast the relig right’s Goliath.
At the same time, the relig right has ntuoly and effectively untered the enavors of lbian and gay activists, workg to repeal many of the laws prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and to progrs a nstutnal amendment “protectg” marriage. Fetner shows how gay activists and the relig right have tablished effect a symbtic relatnship which each si very much affects the velopment of s unterpart. As lbian and gay activists mand an end to prejudice, cln marriage, the right to serve the ary, and full cizenship regardls of sexual orientatn, the relig right has rpond wh antigay planks Republin party platforms and the blockg of social and polil change efforts.
HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM. BY TA FETNER. MNEAPOLIS, MN: UNIVERSY OF MNOTA PRS, 2008. XXIII + 156 PP. $67.50 CLOTH, $22.50 PAPER
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Fetner exam how the lbian and gay movement reacts to opposn by changg rhetoric, tone, and tactics and reveals how this nnectn has fluenced—and ma more succsful—the evolutn of gay activism the Uned Stat.
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Fetner addrs bat that lie at the center of the culture wars and, ultimately, she monstrat how the ntent relatnship between gay and lbian rights activists and the relig right—a dynamic that is surprisgly necsary to both—challeng assumptns about how social movements are signifintly shaped by their rivals. How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism, by. Ta Fetner's tightly wrten monograph tells the story of two social movements, the gay and lbian movement and the relig right, om the middle through the end of the twentieth century.
Wrg om the perspective of social movement theory, Fetner argu that the two n be seen as opposg movements, and sets out to terme how the gay and lbian movement and the relig right fluenced each other.
Bee of the dispary size and rourc between the two movements, and as her tle impli, she foc on the relig right's substantial fluence on the gay and lbian her story unfolds, Fetner intifi different aspects of the relig right's fluence, begng wh the rhetoril shift evinced gay and lbian groups' prentatn of equal rights activism after the rise of Ana Bryant's late-1970s mpaign to repeal anti-discrimatn measur enacted by a number of state and lol ernments. In the 1980s, Fetner suggts the substantial growth and anizatnal velopment of the relig right, along wh the prsur exerted by the AIDS crisis, forced the gay and lbian movement to shift om a grassroots mol to a hierarchil, policy-oriented, natnal anizatnal mol. By the late 1980s, the gay and lbian movement was followg the relig right to party polics; as the latter worked s way to the ner circl of the Republin Party, the former attempted, ls succsfully, to make roads wh the Democrats.
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Print Tmp himself said was a “great honor” to be lled the most pro-gay print ever, and the First Lady publicly endorsed gay and lbian equaly.
In the years prr, an creasgly nfint gay liberatn movement had succsfully passed nondiscrimatn ordanc across the untry.
While ncerns about the ordance’s lack of relig liberty protectns buoyed her effort, Bryant’s rhetoric about the threat gay people ostensibly posed to children was the mpaign’s lastg legacy.
HOW THE RELIG RIGHT SHAPED LBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM
While praisg her urage and ldg her for “emphasizg that God lov the homosexual, ” Graham also suggted that he would not have said “some thgs she and her associat said … the same way. Graham add that, while he saw his votn as foced on preachg the gospel, he “was also fearful that her mpaign might galvanize and brg out to the open homosexualy throughout the untry, so that homosexuals would end up a stronger posn.
As Ta Fetner argu How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism, Bryant and Briggs advertently revigorated what had been an creasgly dormant movement, givg a more ant and opposnal edge than had prevly.
Activists personalized the issue for the first time: Openly gay polician Harvey Milk enuraged people to e out of the closet to their iends and neighbors, rhapg public opn about the challeng they faced. Wrten by psychologist Pl Cameron, they emphasized, among other thgs, that gay men gt fel matter their sexual practic.