The First Amendment and LGBT equality : a contentious history / Carlos A. Ball.
2017
KF4754.5 .B35 2017eb
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Title
The First Amendment and LGBT equality : a contentious history / Carlos A. Ball.
Author
Ball, Carlos A., author.
ISBN
9780674977990 (electronic book)
0674977998 (electronic book)
9780674972193
0674972198
0674977998 (electronic book)
9780674972193
0674972198
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (349 pages)
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KF4754.5 .B35 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.7308/7
Summary
"Conservative opponents of LGBT equality in the United States often couch their opposition in claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is no surprise, then, that many LGBT supporters equate First Amendment arguments with resistance to their cause. The First Amendment and LGBT Equality tells another story, about the First Amendment's crucial, yet largely forgotten, role in the first few decades of the gay rights movement. Between the 1950s and 1980s, when many courts were still openly hostile to sexual minorities, they nonetheless recognized the freedom of gay and lesbian people to express themselves and associate with one another. Successful First Amendment cases protected LGBT publications and organizations, protests and parades, and individuals' right to come out. The amendment was wielded by the other side only after it had laid the groundwork for major LGBT equality victories. Carlos A. Ball illuminates the full trajectory of this legal and cultural history. He argues that, in accommodating those who dissent from LGBT equality on grounds of conscience, it is neither necessary nor appropriate to depart from the established ways in which American antidiscrimination law has, for decades, accommodated equality dissenters. But he also argues that as progressives fight the First Amendment claims of religious conservatives and other LGBT opponents today, they should take care not to erode the very safeguards of liberty that allowed LGBT rights to exist in the first place"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Moral displacement and obscenity law
Coming together and free expression
Coming out and free expression
Activism in and out of the courts
The race and gender precedents
LGBT equality and the right to exclude
Marriage equality and religious liberty.
Coming together and free expression
Coming out and free expression
Activism in and out of the courts
The race and gender precedents
LGBT equality and the right to exclude
Marriage equality and religious liberty.