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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:LGBTQ Politics
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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