Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Challenge of Law: Sexual Orientation, 1 Gender Identity, and Social Movements
Part I. Social Movement Strategies and the Law
2. Deferral of Legal Tactics: A Global LGBT Social Movement Organization's Perspective
3. Queer Legal Victories: Intersectionality Revisited
4. Intimate Equality: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement's Legal Framing of Sodomy Laws in the Lawrence v. Texas Case
5. Deciding Under the Influence? The "One-Hit Wonders" and Organized-Interest Participation in U.S. Supreme Court Gay Rights Litigation
6. Parents and Paperwork: Same-Sex Parents, Birth Certificates, and Emergent Legality
Part II. Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change
7. The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective
8. Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Transgender Inclusion in Nondiscrimination Ordinances
9. Pushing the Envelope: Dillon's Rule and Local Domestic-Partnership Ordinances
10. Explaining the Differences: Transgender 187 Theories and Court Practice
Part III. Legal Symbols: Constraints and Possibilities
11. It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango: Fighting With Words in the Conflict Over Same-Sex Marriage
12. Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Reading the Iconography of Special Rights
13. A Jury of One's Queers: Revisiting the Dan White Trial Casey Charles
14. The Gay Divorcée: The Case of the Missing Argument
Notes
References
Contributors
Index