Livre - The gay agenda
306.7 WAL
Description
Livre
Walton Gerald
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (356 p.)
Dimensions : 23 cm
The «gay agenda» is a rhetorical strategy deployed by the religious right and other social conservatives to magnify fear and hostility of queers. Queers are accused, among other things, of strategizing to recruit children into sexually deviant lifestyles; dismantling family and marriage as cornerstones of civilization; and forcing the entertainment industry and court systems to do their bidding. Queers certainly do have an agenda but it is not the one that the religious right claims it is. It is to assert their presence in the public space; claim and name their identities; and strategize for social justice in law, schools, and workplaces. The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of «agenda» and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and family, cultural influences, schooling and education, and politics and law. Gerald Walton (PhD, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario) focuses on intersectionality studies, power, privilege, and educational policy in his research and teaching of undergraduate and graduate students. He is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
INTRODUCTION "Tmes is running out" : Lessons I ha=Have Learned as a Recovered Fundamentalist "Ex-Gay", Christian Walton, p.1 SECTION ONE : DEMANDING "SPECIAL RIGHTS" 1. LGBTQ Student Agendas : Voice, Dialogue, and Visibility, Susan W. Woolley, p.19 2. Becoming an LGBTQ Activist: The Story of a Young Queer Activist, Ramón Robles-Fernández, p.37 3. The Gay Agenda in Ontario Catholic Schools: Gay-Straight Alliances as Activist Education, Blair Niblett/Casey Oraa, p.53 SECTION TWO : DESTROYING WOMEN, MEN, FAMILY, AND MARRIAGE 4. Fucking the Binary for Social Change: Our Radically Queer Agenda, Avory Faucette, p.73 5. The Quare Agenda of RuPaul’s Drag U, Lisa Weems, p.89 6. Damn Right We’re Here to Destroy Marriage!, Ryan Conrad, p.105 7. Raising Queerlings: Parenting With a Queer Art of Failure, Michelle Walks, p.121 SECTION THREE : BUILDING QUEER CULTURAL DOMINANCE 8. Indigenizing the Gay Agenda : Notes on Cultural Relativism and Homonationalism from Colonial Margins, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, p.139 9. «Not Gay as in Happy but Queer as in Fuck You» : Examining Queer Activist Spaces of Montreal and Toronto, Billy Hébert, p.155 10. Queer Activism and the Severely Normal Agenda in Alberta,1900-Present: A Continuing Saga, Gloria Filax, p.171 11. «Right» and Wrong: LGBTQ and Ally Experiences at a Large, Southern U.S. University, Joshua C. Collins/Tiffany McElmurry, p.189 SECTION FOUR : TAKING OVER SCHOOLS 12. «Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin»: The Clash of Religious and Sexual Minority Rights in Ontario Catholic Schools, Wayne J. Martino, p.207 13. My Real «Gay Agenda»: Exposing the Holy Homophobia of Catholic Schools, Tonya D. Callaghan, p.223 14. Learning Gender, Sexuality, and the «Gay Agenda» in Schools, Brian Burtch/Rebecca Haskell, p.239 15. Dismantling Folk Theories and Claiming Space Within a Social Justice Agenda, Renée DePalma, p.257 16. Queering Educational Research and the Politics of «Conservatively Queer»: Sexmuteness in American Public Schools, Jenna McWilliams, p.273 SECTION FIVE : SEIZING CONTROL OF POLITICS AND THE LAW 17. My «Gay Agenda»: A Response to Focus on the Family, Warren J. Blumenfeld, p.291 18. Our Right to Choose: Religious Conservatives Versus LGBTQ Inclusive Schools, Catherine Taylor, p.309 19. Queering Schools, Gay-Straight Alliances, and the Law, Donn Short, p.327 CONCLUSION Affirming Queer Presence in Schools, Law, and Society, Gerald Walton, p.345
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