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Is Love A Battlefield? The New Politics Of Marriage Equality In The Aging War On Terror, Jackie Givelber
Is Love A Battlefield? The New Politics Of Marriage Equality In The Aging War On Terror, Jackie Givelber
Scripps Senior Theses
When Donald Trump took the stage as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, he made a historical appeal to LGBTQ Americans: to the boisterous applause of a Republican audience, he promised "to protect LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology." Utilizing this historical moment as an indicator of shifting political views around LGBTQ rights in the Republican Party and the US nation-state as a whole, this paper links contemporary iterations of the War on Terror to the legalization of same-sex marriage in June 2015. Connecting same-sex marriage to the …