title: Daring to Marry: Marriage Equality Activism After Proposition 8 as Challenge to the Assimilationist/Radical Binary in Queer Studies.
abstract: I analyze three case studies of marriage equality activism and marriage equality-based groups after the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Evaluating the JoinTheImpact protests of 2008, the LGBTQ rights group GetEQUAL, and the group One Struggle One Fight, I argue that these groups revise queer theoretical arguments about marriage equality activism as by definition assimilationist, homonormative, and single-issue. In contrast to such claims, the cases studied here provide a snapshot of heterogeneous, intersectional, and coalition-based social justice work in which creative methods of protest, including direct action and flash mobs, are deployed in militant ways for marriage rights and beyond.
authors.affiliation: a Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department of Sociology , Tufts University , Medford , Massachusetts , USA.
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics
keywords: GetEQUAL; JoinTheImpact; LGBT; Proposition 8; activism; assimilationism versus radicalism; gay rights; marriage equality; queer theory; same-sex marriage