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    Summary of Gay Rights and Narratives (Page 730-732)

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    This document summarizes issues around intersections of homosexuality with race and sex, as well as same-sex marriage and civil unions. It notes that (1) there is no "unitary gay experience" and different groups may have conflicting interests. It also discusses (2) how sexual orientation has come to define gender and discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination. (3) The gay rights movement has become more mainstream but risks distancing itself from its working class roots.

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    Gay Rights and Narratives (pgs.

    730-732)
    Prepared by Joshua Lee

    Intersections of Homosexuality with Race and Sex


    I. Issues with “Coalition Building”
    a. The term homosexual is associated with a “white gay man”
    b. Different groups may not fit into this mold and there may be conflicting interests
    c. Too often times, even gay legal advocates assume that a “unitary gay experience” exists
    II. Sexual Orientation and Sex
    a. Professor Valdes argues that society has come to use sexual orientation to define
    gender
    b. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination: Society
    constructs how people of different sexes should behave and homosexuality is viewed as
    aberration from the norm
    c. Lesbians are in a unique class because they are homosexual, but the gay movement
    doesn’t totally represent them. They are also feminists, but neither group fully
    represents their interests.
    III. The Movement and Social Class
    a. The early gay rights movement was driven by working class individuals
    b. The movement has now become more mainstream and distancing itself from its roots

    Same Sex-Marriage and Civil Unions


    I. A Brief History (as of publication of the book)
    a. Hawaii started the gay marriage debate in 1993 in a state supreme court ruling that the
    law defining marriage as between a man and woman violated equal protection
    b. The Federal Defense of Marriage Act was passed in 1996 providing Federal recognition
    of only heterosexual marriage and that that states need no recognize homosexual
    marriages from other states
    c. 1999 Vermont’s supreme court ruled it unconstitutional for homosexual couples to be
    denied benefits of marriage and a result, civil unions were recognized
    II. Arguments for and against
    a. Against gay marriage: heterosexual unions benefits society in innumerable ways
    b. For gay marriage: marriage is a right vital to equality
    i. Civil unions without the label of marriage are similar to “separate but equal”
    treatment of blacks
    c. Limitations of marriage as a vehicle for equality
    i. Extending marriage to gays would seem to benefit primarily white and upper-
    class gay males

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