From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, attitudes to gay people have shifted dramatically, and the national story is one of new acceptance. Suzanna Danuta Walters argues that the plea for tolerance has instead settled for a watered-down goal and sabotaged full civil rights. Drawing on a wide range of sources and her own experience, she examines political gains alongside persistent anti-gay laws, queer youth freedom alongside suicides and murders, and challenges both ‘born that way’ biology and ‘God made me this way’ arguments, arguing that tolerance is not the goal but a dead end.
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| Title: The Tolerance Trap |
| Author: Suzanna Danuta Walters |
| ISBN: 9780814770573 |
| Subtitle: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Are Sabotaging Gay Equality |
| Genre: Law & Government; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences |
| Subject(s): Equality; Gay rights; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General; Toleration |
| Publication Date: 2014-05-02 |
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| Publisher: NYU Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Hardcover |
| Pages: 333 |
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| Book_ID: 119041 |