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A Look at the Gay Rights Movement Beyond Marriage and the Military

by via Democracy Now
Friday, June 26, 2009 :Forty years after Stonewall where is the gay rights movement headed? What does the focus on marriage equality mean for the goals of gay liberation? We speak with activist, writer and historian, Lisa Duggan. "It remains to be seen whether a call for full civil equality can produce mass mobilization, or whether it might soon be reduced to a call for gay marriage only, or worse, to the production of just another commercially sponsored gay parade," Duggan writes. "The devil will be in the details, which will be settled in the weeks to come."
Forty years after Stonewall where is the gay rights movement headed? What does the focus on marriage equality mean for the goals of gay liberation?

These are some of the issues our next guest has written extensively about. Lisa Duggan is an activist, writer, and historian and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of several books, most recently, “The Twilight of Equality? : Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy.” Her forthcoming book is called “The End of Marriage: The War Over the Future of State Sponsored Love.” Her latest article for the Nation magazine hails LGBT organizing in Utah as a model for gay activists around the country. Its called "What"s Right with Utah"

Lisa Duggan joins me here in the firehouse studio.

Lisa Duggan, activist, writer and historian. She is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of several books including “The Twilight of Equality? : Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy.” Her forthcoming book is called “The End of Marriage: The War Over the Future of State Sponsored Love.”

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