Gary Mucciaroni
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479883080
- eISBN:
- 9781479898794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479883080.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This chapter argues that the attainment of marriage equality will not push it in a starkly different trajectory. It discusses several different factors that limit the movement’s ability to change ...
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This chapter argues that the attainment of marriage equality will not push it in a starkly different trajectory. It discusses several different factors that limit the movement’s ability to change directions in significant ways, including its diversity and fragmentation; its organizational emphasis on professional advocacy over grassroots participation; and its identity-based civil rights orientation. Within those restraints, the chapter predicts that the movement, post-marriage equality, will seek to increase LGBT representation among elected and other government officials and placing greater emphasis on LGBT rights issues in other countries. It also argues that the movement would benefit from moving beyond issues of civil rights, and the policing of nondiscrimination obligations, in order to focus more explicitly on efforts to engage and educate institutions of civil society, such as corporations and schools, on the need to adopt policies that make LGBT individuals feel safe, secure, and respected as equals.Less
This chapter argues that the attainment of marriage equality will not push it in a starkly different trajectory. It discusses several different factors that limit the movement’s ability to change directions in significant ways, including its diversity and fragmentation; its organizational emphasis on professional advocacy over grassroots participation; and its identity-based civil rights orientation. Within those restraints, the chapter predicts that the movement, post-marriage equality, will seek to increase LGBT representation among elected and other government officials and placing greater emphasis on LGBT rights issues in other countries. It also argues that the movement would benefit from moving beyond issues of civil rights, and the policing of nondiscrimination obligations, in order to focus more explicitly on efforts to engage and educate institutions of civil society, such as corporations and schools, on the need to adopt policies that make LGBT individuals feel safe, secure, and respected as equals.
