Gay Rights at the Ballot Box

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ID19940975
AuthorsA L Stone (0000-0003-3153-151X, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGay Rights at the Ballot Box (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/9780816680207
OpenAlexW595141410
Open LibraryOL38839490M
ISBN9780816680207
LanguageEN
Citations received31

The passage of the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California in 2008 stunned gay rights activists across the country. Although facing a well-funded campaign in support of the ballot measure, LGBT activists had good reasons for optimism, including the size and strength of their campaign. Since 1974, the LGBT movement has fought 146 anti-gay ballot initiatives sponsored by the Religious Right and has developed innovative strategies to oppose these measures. This book examines how the tactics of LGBT activists have evolved and unravels the complex relationship between ballot measure campaigns and the broader goals of the LGBT movement. This book measures, both those merely attempted and those successfully put before voters, this book draws on archival research and interviews with more than one hundred LGBT activists to provide a detailed account of the campaigns to stop such ballot measures from passing into law. As the book shows through in-depth case studies, although LGBT activists lost the vast majority of these fights, they also won significant statewide victories in Oregon in 1992 and Arizona in 2006, and local successes, including ones in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1998 and 2002. This book analyzes how LGBT activists constantly refined their campaign tactics in response to both victories and defeats. It also stresses that such campaigns have played both a complementary and contradictory role within the LGBT movement

Ballot · Constitution · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Proposition · Supreme court · Voting · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · 323.3/2640973 · Constitutional amendments · Gay & Lesbian Studies · Gay liberation movement · Gay rights · Gay rights movement · Hq76.8.u5 s76 2012 · Referendum · Social sciences · united states

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