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A review by iimpavid
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage by Deeg, Eric A. Stanley, Martha Jane Kaufman, Katie Miles, John D'Emilio, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Dean Spade, Kate Raphael, Kate Bornstein, Yasmin Nair, Craig Willse, Ryan Conrad, Kenyon Farrow
5.0
1) much shorter book than i thought i was getting
2) not at all short on quality critique of the "marriage equality" movement
This makes a whole lot of points that I've been mulling over re: corporate pride and queer politics. Namely that most of the United States (read: the ppl in the US with power) is content to give the poor little queers scraps as long as it'll shut us up. In hindsight this book makes me ask questions: what good, exactly, has winning the right to marry done for lgbtq communities as a whole? are we safer? are we dying less? are few of us suffering in poverty? do more of us have insurance and job security? what has marriage equality on its own done to gain lgbtq people equal protection under the law? marriage equality seems to have been something of a pacifier.
3)i wish i'd read it 10 years ago when it was first released
2) not at all short on quality critique of the "marriage equality" movement
This makes a whole lot of points that I've been mulling over re: corporate pride and queer politics. Namely that most of the United States (read: the ppl in the US with power) is content to give the poor little queers scraps as long as it'll shut us up. In hindsight this book makes me ask questions: what good, exactly, has winning the right to marry done for lgbtq communities as a whole? are we safer? are we dying less? are few of us suffering in poverty? do more of us have insurance and job security? what has marriage equality on its own done to gain lgbtq people equal protection under the law? marriage equality seems to have been something of a pacifier.
3)i wish i'd read it 10 years ago when it was first released