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Queer (In)Justice: Mapping New Gay (Scholarly) Agendas, Giovanna Shay, J. Kelly Strader
Queer (In)Justice: Mapping New Gay (Scholarly) Agendas, Giovanna Shay, J. Kelly Strader
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The 2011 book Queer (In)Justice surveys involvement of sexual minorities in all phases of the what the authors term the "criminal legal system." It examines the treatment of LGBTQ people as criminal defendants, victims, and prisoners. Queer (In)Justice moves beyond the typical focus of gay rights activists and scholars in the criminal law area to address the everyday treatment of LGBTQ people by police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections authorities. Relying heavily on prison abolitionist movement thinking, the book calls into question reliance on criminal punishment as a means of combating violence against LGBTQ people. Although largely anecdotal, and sometimes over-heated …
Similarly Situated, Giovanna Shay
Similarly Situated, Giovanna Shay
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In recent marriage equality litigation, opponents of same-sex marriage have argued that gay and straight couples are not “similarly situated” with respect to the purposes of the marriage statutes. Courts in Iowa,Connecticut, and California have rejected these arguments (although the California result was overturned by Proposition 8, which itself was invalidated by a district court as this Article was being written). The Iowa and California courts also questioned the structure of the “similarly situated” analysis asserted by the opponents. Marriage equality opponents in those states pressed a “threshold”-type similarly situated analysis.Under this scheme, if the two groups are not similarly …
Clarion Call Or False Alarm: Why Proposed Exemptions To Equal Marriage Statutes Return Us To A Religious Understanding Of The Public Marketplace, Taylor Flynn
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This Article discusses the problematic issues arising from proposed religious exemptions to equal marriage statutes. In the Author's view these exemptions would create the societal framework in which lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men can be refused service in virtually all aspects of life, whether fundamental or mundane—from healthcare to housing, from employment to flower-buying. This would all be accomplished with the express permission of the state. The Author believes that these proposals could permit widespread discrimination on a multitude of protected bases. The proposals appear to have been crafted to seize on cultural and religious anxiety and fears concerning same-sex …