An novative, data-driven explanatn of how public opn shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and w...
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THE PATH TO GAY RIGHTS: HOW ACTIVISM AND COMG OUT CHANGED PUBLIC OPN
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In s sophomore slump, The Path seems to have fotten why wanted to believe the first one benefed om the obligatn of troducg Meyerism and s believers, based on pounds Pe, San Diego, and upstate New York. The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Comg Out Changed Public OpnAn novative, data-driven explanatn of how public opn shifted on LGBTQ rightsThe Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved s most unexpected victory―transformg gay people om a spised group of social viants to a mory worthy of rights and protectns the ey of most Amerins. The rult was an crease the number of LGBTQ people who me out and lived their liv openly, and wh creased ntact wh gay people, public attus began to warm and change.
THE PATH TO GAY RIGHTS
An novative, data-driven explanatn of how public opn shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved s most unexpected victory—transformg gay people om a spised group of social viants to a mory worthy of rights and protectns the ey of most Amerins. The book weav together a narrative of LGBTQ history wh new fdgs om the field of polil psychology to provi an unrstandg of how social movements affect mass attus the Uned Stat and globally. Usg data gog back to the 1970s, the book argu that the current unrstandg of how social movements change mass opn—through sympathetic media verage and endorsements om polil lears—nnot provi an aquate explanatn for the phenomenal succs of the LGBTQ movement at changg the public’s views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argu that the LGBTQ muny’s rponse to the AIDS crisis was a turng pot for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS anizatns strategilly targeted polil and media lears, normalizg news verage of LGBTQ issu and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the Uned Stat that their liv were valued. The rult was an crease the number of LGBTQ people who me out and lived their liv openly, and wh creased ntact wh gay people, public attus began to warm and change. Garretson go beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to velop an evince-based argument for how social movements n alter mass opn on any ntent topic. * the path gay *
GenrLGBTHistoryNonfictn352 pag, HardverPublished June 5, 2018About the thorRatgs & ReviewsFriends & Followg Communy ReviewsDisplayg 1 - 2 of 2 reviews184 reviewsShelved as 'dnf'Febary 16, 2022i’m sorry but i jt n’t waste my ltle time on this earth readg bad non fictn books about gay rights history that ll the entire lgbtq+ muny ‘gays and lbians’.
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Support for gay rights has followed a different trajectory than support for any other mory groups rights, buildg more slowly but acceleratg more The Path to Gay Rights, Garretson has pellgly told the story that explas whya remarkable piece of Huddy, Co-Edor of The Oxford Handbook of Polil Psychology, Send Edn:The Path to Gay Rights exam why and how public support for gays and lbians creased markedly recent s. Garretson explor the origs of this unually rapid shift public opn, tracg back to Amerins creased ntact wh gay and lbian dividuals both directly and virtually through TV book provis a rich and layered acunt of events, activism, tert group activy, and polil mpaigns amplified by reful analysis of survey data, onle search, and Congrsnal vot. It mak a signifint ntributn to the polil science lerature on LGBT studi by synthizg and advancg the empiril arguments on the shift opn on gay rights jt a few fe study exam how the change public opn took place over the years while lookg at the ultimate of social change important addn to the LGBTQ book's narrative is hopeful's a story of how untls personal teractns and dividual chang of heart, not ele opn or legal mandat, drove one of the most remarkable attudal shifts morn history.
While laws agast sodomy, seldom enforced, were mon om the lonial perd, the velopment of the medil and mental health profsns the late 1800s and early 1900s provid a new, “ratnal” basis for the existence of anti-homosexualy statut. 8 Acrdg to Canaday, “Progrsive era reformers ed the word homosexualy somewhat terchangeably wh ‘pervert’, ‘generate’, ‘perast’, and ‘sodome’ their mpaigns to improve public health. As new medil notns of the homosexual as a distct type of person started to take root the public md, they beme nnected to prev notns of homosexualy as sful and immoral.
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