LGBT Politics and American Political Development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6233089
AutoresRichard M Valelly (Swarthmore College), Richard Valelly (0000-0002-2854-6991, Swarthmore College, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume15
Fascículo1
Páginas313-332
Data de publicação2012-06-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577
EditoraAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-polisci-061709-104806
OpenAlexW2164871012
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas77

Although the rest of the American politics subfield has taken up many of the research challenges that LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) politics poses, there has been very little attention to LGBT politics within APD (American political development). Yet LGBT politics has deeply developmental and “state-centered” dynamics. Until the middle of the twentieth century, sexual orientation was simply not widely and deeply politicized in the United States. But abruptly, in a period of a decade and a half (roughly 1940–1955), national political and bureaucratic actors created a national sexuality regime that has taken 60 years of LGBT struggle to partly reverse. In seeking to substitute a different, overtly inclusive sexuality regime, LGBT citizens and their straight allies have initiated far-reaching changes in public policy, regulation of the workplace, and the institution of marriage. American politics has thus been developed by LGBT politics—and in the process, a fruitful research agenda has emerged

Bureaucracy · Human sexuality · Institution · Lesbian · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Sexual minority · Sexual orientation · Sociology · State (computer science · Transgender · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies