...In this chapter, the author, a first-generation Swedish American, reflects on the tumultuous marriage of his parents, Oscar and Helen Lindberg. The death of her father, Richard Stone, left Helen depressed. Even after reconciling with Oscar, she was filled with depression and morbid thoughts of her...

...This chapter focuses on the debate over homosexual marriage. It examines two revolutionary clauses of the National Family Security Act that cleared the way toward making a reality of what had until then been an impossible dream: universal marriage. The first is the child purity provision, popularly...

...Introduces the volume by setting the chapters squarely in the context of the debate within the movement over the desirability of marriage. Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor survey the history of same-sex marriage, outline the different positions from which gay and lesbian activists have critiqued...

...Arlene Stein compares two cities—Newark, New Jersey, a low income predominantly Black and Latino/a city, and Maplewood, New Jersey, an ethnically diverse middle-class suburb. She argues that poor people in the city are less likely to benefit from marriage, while middle-class same-sex couples living...

...Jeffrey Kosbie examines the ways in which the meaning of marriage is constructed by Mass Equality, the social movement organization behind the campaign to protect marriage equality in Massachusetts. He finds that Mass Equality defined same-sex marriage as a “battleground” issue that was important...

...Katie Oliviero analyzes the campaign by the Protect Marriage Coalition for Proposition 8 in California. She argues that the opponents of same-sex marriage share with supporters the insistence that marriage is a public institution, not simply a private act between two people. Ironically, defenders...

... sexuality, marriage, and reproduction were in large part determined by a long history of cultural and legal prohibitions that were legislatively overturned at the end of the 1960s. Halberstam Judith multiracial movement personhood genealogy of queer time racial categories black and white binary rendered...

...This chapter focuses on the debate over homosexual marriage. It examines two revolutionary clauses of the National Family Security Act that cleared the way toward making a reality of what had until then been an impossible dream: universal marriage. The first is the child purity provision, popularly...

...As the nationwide campaign for same-sex marriage rages in states across the United States and crowds of same-sex couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is contested within LGBT communities and the LGBT movement. Rarely has a social movement goal so central to a movement’s...

...The passage of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California in 2008 stunned gay rights activists across the country. Although facing a well-funded campaign in support of the ballot measure, LGBT activists had good reasons for optimism, including the size and strength of their campaign. Since...

..., and their formation of “stealth” initiatives that did not even mention sexual orientation and included same-sex marriage bans. direct democracy Religious Right Austin California Colorado Delaware Denver Amendment Houston Texas Texas Cincinnati Ohio boycott after Issue Georgetown Black Suffrage Bill...

... referendums and initiatives on the ballot. This losing streak continued for five years, reaching its peak with the passage of Proposition 8 in 2008 which prohibited same-sex marriage. This string of defeats led LGBT campaigners to rethink the model campaign, turning their focus to movement building...

... dependence on marriage and submission to a sexual double standard. In their latest offensive, Bennett and Wehner remind us that what the right is pushing as welfare reform is moral fiat rooted in religious dogma. It is the churches that have made a moral issue of confining sex and procreation to marriage...

... preoccupation with the family. These two significant documents reveal a seemingly contradictory national stance on the American family. Both were state initiatives to reinforce heterosexual marriage, and by extension the heteronormative family, as private units that fortify national well-being. The combined...

... heterosexual adults are free to choose marriage partners across the color line, this legal liberty has made the practice of romantic love itself seem neutral and individualistic. Efforts to politicize multiracial children reveal a problematic condition: while the multiracial family has gained legal, rational...

...This chapter examines the ideal of male breadwinning among New Negroes by focusing on two upwardly mobile spouses who confronted divergent visions of gender roles in marriage: the author’s grandparents, Sarah and James Curwood. Like other New Negroes, the Curwoods were caught up in a movement...

... on marriage and family concerns. LGBT movement social movements constituents’ views of Cohen Cathy Michels Robert Selznik Philip Weber Max Weber Michels thesis Smith Miriam Strolovitch Dara civil rights movement U S marriage equality and antimiscege nation comparisons to same sex marriage anti...

...Amy Stone finds that the Christian Right has developed anti-same-sex marriage discourse that appeals not just to conservative voters, but to liberal and undecided voters as well. She argues that, while same-sex marriage may seem to some like assimilation, the strong opposition it has generated...

...Verta Taylor, Katrina Kimport, Nella Van Dyke, and Ellen Andersen draw on interviews and a random survey of couples who married in San Francisco in 2004 to examine the impact of marriage equality activism on activists themselves. They show that the lesbian and gay couples who participated...

...Melanie Heath explores the deeply personal stories of Oklahoma couples who traveled to San Francisco to marry in 2004. She finds that rather than using marriage as a way to assimilate into dominant heterosexual culture, lesbian and gay couples viewed marrying as a political act to resist...