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Title: The Gay Agenda
Condition: New
Subtitle: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice
Author: Gerald Walton
Contributor: Gerald Walton (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
EAN: 9781433118371
ISBN: 9781433118371
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Children's Learning & Education, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Date: 20/01/2014
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 230mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Weight: 620g
Book Series: Counterpoints
Release Year: 2014
Description: The «gay agenda» is a rhetorical strategy deployed by the religious right and other social conservatives to magnify fear and hostility of queers. Queers are accused, among other things, of strategizing to recruit children into sexually deviant lifestyles; dismantling family and marriage as cornerstones of civilization; and forcing the entertainment industry and court systems to do their bidding. Queers certainly do have an agenda but it is not the one that the religious right claims it is. It is to assert their presence in the public space; claim and name their identities; and strategize for social justice in law, schools, and workplaces. The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of «agenda» and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and family, cultural influences, schooling and education, and politics and law.

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