ISBN:
9780197671504
,
9780197671498
Language:
English
Pages:
294 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Murib, Zein Terms of exclusion
DDC:
306.760973
Keywords:
Sexual minorities Political activity
;
Sexual minorities Civil rights
Abstract:
"In June 2015, an undocumented transgender activist named Jennicet Gutiérrez staged a protest during President Obama's opening of LGBT Pride festivities at the White House. The event convened many prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists and political leaders to celebrate what was expected to be a positive outcome in the Supreme Court case regarding the legal status of same-sex marriages. Gutiérrez seized the spotlight of that highly-publicized gathering and interrupted Obama's speech, in which he praised the progress made by the LGBT group in pursuit of civil rights, by loudly calling for the end of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy of housing detainees by sex. Her protests alternated between two messages: demanding the end of incarcerating migrants at the border and underscoring the stakes of this practice by highlighting the disproportionate incidences of transgender women sexually assaulted - and dying - while in ICE detention"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : a seat at the table -- Current scholarship, min arguments, and approach -- Come out! : the mobilization of gay identity -- Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice -- "The B isn't silent" : bisexuality, from a cultural movement to political practice -- Transgender political identity as coalition -- Framing unity : LGBT and queer -- Rightful citizenship claims, then and now.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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