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The Lesbian and Gay Movements

Assimilation or Liberation?

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By Craig A Rimmerman

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Throughout their relatively short history, lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace assimilationist or liberationist strategies. The Lesbian and Gay Movements explores this dilemma in both contemporary and historical contexts, describing the sources of these conflicts, to what extent the conflicts have been resolved, and how they might be resolved in future. Rimmerman also tackles the challenging issue of what constitutes movement “effectiveness” and how “effective” the assimilationist and liberationist strategies have been in three contentious policy arenas: the military ban, same-sex marriage, and AIDS. Considerable attention is devoted to how policy elites—presidents, federal and state legislatures, courts—have responded to the movements' grievances.

Since the publication of the first edition in 2007, there have been enormous changes in the landscape of lesbian and gay movements and rights. The thoroughly revised second edition includes updated discussion of LGBT movements' undertakings in, as well the Obama administration's response to, AIDS/HIV policy, the fight to legalize same-sex marriage and overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, and the repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”

On Sale
Aug 5, 2014
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Avalon Publishing
ISBN-13
9780813348490

Craig A Rimmerman

About the Author

Craig A. Rimmerman is professor of public policy and political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the editor of Westview Press’s Dilemmas in American Politics series. He is also author of The New Citizenship, From Identity to Politics, and co-editor of The Politics of Gay Rights (with Kenneth A. Wald and Clyde Wilcox).

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