Critics of identity politics decry the celebration difference within movements, yet many activists underscore their similarities to, rather than differences from, majority. This article develops idea "identity deployment" as a form strategic collective action. Thus one can ask under what political conditions are identities that celebrate or suppress deployed strategically. A comparison strategies used in four lesbian and gay rights campaigns shows interactions between social movement...

We argue that critiques of political process theory are beginning to coalesce into a new approach social movements—a “multi-institutional politics” approach. While the model assumes domination is organized by and around one source power, alternative perspective views as multiple sources each which simultaneously material symbolic. examine conceptions movements, politics, actors, goals, strategies supported model, demonstrating view society power underlying too narrow encompass diversity...

This review presents an overview of research on identity politics. First, I distinguish between various approaches to defining politics and the challenges presented by each approach. In process, show that these reflect competing theoretical understandings relationship experience, culture, identity, politics, power. These debates raise issues address in second section, including (a) how understand personal experience political stance, (b) why status identities are understood and/or portrayed...

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In 1934 Huey Long created Share Our Wealth, a national challenger that sought economic redistribution. study explores the outcomes of this insurgency and reasons for its successes failures. We first review perspectives on success social protest movements provide new definition success, based securing collective goods beneficiary group through movement organization efforts. Next we elaborate political mediation theory success. This holds to be successful must do more than just mobilize...

Critics of identity politics often wax polemically as they charge contemporary social movements with narrowly and naively engaging in essentialist based on perceived differences from the majority. Such essentialism, critics charge, inhibits coalition building (e.g., Phelan 1993; Kimmel 1993), cannot produce meaningful change, reinforces hegemonic restrictive categories (Seidman 1997). It is even responsible for decline Left (Gitlin 1994, 1995). Social movement scholars similarly view...

This article employs and expands a multidimensional framework for understanding movement effects that includes political, mobilization, cultural outcomes. It compares lesbian gay efforts to decriminalize sodomy between 1961 1977 1986 1991 examines the conditions under which activists strive different sorts of goals. Because strategies are inextricably tied what motivates activists—that is, their constitutes success—this sheds light on how understand negotiate external environment. In...

Most victims of antigay/lesbian hate crimes never report these to police for fear hostility and abuse. Similarly, lesbian/gay officers a negative response if they come out at work. Research assumes but has not shown that dislike lesbians gay men translates into behavior. This article employs original survey data examine the relationship between attitudes behavior toward gays among subsets sworn officers. We employ concept “sexual project” argue this is shaped by experiences determine...

Abstract This presidential address disrupts common misperceptions about what gun violence in the United States looks like, who is most affected, and how we should think reducing scourge of violence. I draw on seven years ethnographic interview-based research prevention activism Connecticut nationally. Focusing community mass shootings, demonstrate that structural racism racist discourse distort know violence, experience respond to organize reduce Theoretically, take a multi-institutional...

This article draws on a case study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) queer politics in Vermont to explain the conditions under which radical discourse gains loses public voice. In contrast claims that marginalization is due silencing by rights activists or litigation strategies, we argue variation over time result co‐optation goals opponents. Extending social movement literature frame variation, opponents co‐opt when they adopt aspects content movement's discourse, while...

In this article, I respond to queer critiques of the pursuit same-sex marriage. first examine issue (homo)normalization through a consideration everyday lives couples with children, subject about which critics are strangely silent. Children force be out in multiple areas their and recent court cases explicitly challenge idea that do not make fit parents. Second, whether marriage will address structural inequalities or mainly benefit white, middle-class people. Access has disparate benefits...

Generally ignoring firearm‐deaths by suicide, “common sense” divides gun violence into two distinct types of phenomena: urban and mass shootings. At a cursory level, these phenomena seem because the difference in number victims killed during particular shooting, rather than subtypes co‐creating master category defined violence. As result, gunshot deaths black brown bodies settings, which constitute majority after are viewed as routine whereas suburban settings extraordinary worthy outrage....

This article uses the Hapa movement as a case study in order to provide framework for understanding identity goal of social movements and expand on theoretical multiracial movements. In contrast current understandings identity-based movements, this argues that seeks simultaneously deconstruct traditional notions (mono)racial identities secure recognition "Hapa" identity. Movements have are motivated by activists' how categories constituted those categories, codes, ways thinking serve axes...

Given hostility within segments of LGBT communities toward same‐sex marriage, how do Australian activists justify their efforts achieving marriage equality? In this article, we expand the social movement literature by examining construct identity, meaning, and goals in contradistinction to others same movement. We draw on interviews with lesbian gay examine what enables them pursue contested goal light internal critiques that equality will undermine significance identity impair activism...

Sexual Citizenship and the Pursuit of Relationship-Recognition Policies in Australia United States Mary Bernstein (bio) Nancy A. Naples Achieving right to marry has arguably been one most important agenda items for U.S. lesbian gay movement more than a decade (Bernstein 2002; Eskridge 1996). In contrast, achieving same-sex marriage not central political activists until very recently. Instead, have pursued entrance into “de facto” relationships that are some ways similar common-law marriages...

While fear among gay men and lesbians about being out in a masculinist environment is not surprising, this article examines what heterosexuals expect will happen when come out. We draw on unique dataset from police department the southwest United States to examine consequences anticipated by heterosexual employees if or lesbian officer's sexual orientation became known workplace. test four main sets of factors: individual-level demographic characteristics religious background; homophobia;...

In this article, we use comparative historical analysis to explain agenda-setting and the timing of policy outcomes on same-sex marriage in United States, Canada, Australia. Unlike States Australia does not have a bill rights, making litigation obtain rights enumerated existing legislation unavailable activists. Extending literatures development public political institutionalism, argue that absence domestic opportunities for legal change, international law becomes more important activists...