Disrupting Dignity : : Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives / / Stephen M. Engel, Timothy S. Lyle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Engel, Stephen M.,; Lyle, Timothy S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: LGBTQ Politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignityIn 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the “equal dignity” of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment. With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignity—and the subsequent chase to be defined by its terms—became a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential. Ultimately, Engel and Lyle challenge our understanding of dignity as an unquestioned good. They expose the constraining work it accomplishes and the exclusionary ideas about respectability that it promotes. To restore a lost past and point to a more inclusive future, they assert the worthiness of queer lives beyond dignity’s limits.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Dignity’s Disciplining Power The Politics of Public Health from AIDS to PrEP -- 1 Fucking with Dignity Bathhouse Closures and the State’s Degradation of Queer Kinship during the Early AIDS Crisis -- 2 Do You Swallow? Possibilities for Queer Transgression in New Contexts -- Part II Promoting Sameness or Embracing Difference Distinct Visions of Dignity in Popular Culture -- 3 Isn’t Straight Still the Default? The Politics of Restraint in Love, Simon -- 4 Doing the Most Pose and the Value of Queer Excess -- 5 Liberal Rulings for Conservative Ends Manipulating Dignity from Decriminalization to Marriage Equality -- 6 Is Dignity a Dead End? Alternative Notions of Dignity and the Promise of Our Anti- racist Constitution -- Conclusion Doing Dignity Differently An Anti- stigma Approach -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors