Queer Activism After Marriage Equality

Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis is the founder and former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, and worked as an activist for over two decades. He is currently Assistant Professor of Social Work at Seattle University, U.S.A., and has written about queer social movements, poverty, and marriage politics. Michael W. Yarbrough is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose work explores the intersection of law, culture, and family. He is Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Political Science Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), U.S.A., and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, U.S.A. Her research interests include African American political thought and protest, gender, and sexuality. Jones is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals.

"Queer Activism After Marriage Equality delivers an urgent, necessary and galvanizing message: To build the vital intersectional social justice movement we need now, we must move beyond the limits of mainstream LGBT politics and build on our grass roots organizations, our queer of color leadership, and our focus on economic justice. The smart, provocative essays in this book are required reading for our current political emergency."Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA"Unlike any collection I have seen, Queer Activism After Marriage Equality offers at once an excellent primer for students new to critiques of the gay marriage movement and an illuminating reader for activists and scholars immersed in those debates. This volume importantly captures the creativity and vitality of radical social movements that have operated in the shadows of corporate-sponsored organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign."Hiram Perez, Associate Professor of English, Vassar College, USA and author of A Taste for Brown Bodies

• Introduction, Part I: Examining the mainstream LGBT movement, Chapter 1: LGBTQ politics after marriage: a panel discussion with Gabriel Foster, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Robyn Ochs, Steven William Thrasher, Urvashi Vaid, and Hari Ziyad; Chapter 2: Ga(y)tekeeping identity, citizenship and claims to justice: "freedom to serve," "freedom to marry," and the U.S. thirst for good gay subjects; Chapter 3: What’s love got to do with it? Queer politics and the "love pivot" Part II: New Social Movements, Chapter 4: A new queer liberation movement: and its targets of influence, mobilization, and benefits; Chapter 5: "This is the freedom ride we are taking": an interview with the Audre Lorde Project’s Cara Page; Chapter 6: "Building the world that we want to live in": an interview with Jennicet Gutiérrez and Jorge Gutierrez from Familia: TQLM; Chapter 7: Putting the T back in LGBTQ? Trans activism and interests after marriage equality; Chapter 8: Centering intersectional politics: queer migration activisms "after marriage"; Part III: Transnational perspectives, Chapter 9: After marriage, redefining freedom in the crosshairs of empire and dictatorship: observations towards a new politics of sexuality; Chapter 10: Between secularism and pro-Islamism: a historical review of LGBT activism during the pro-Islam JDP rule in Turkey; Chapter 11: French LGBT activism after marriage; Chapter 12: Queering the Indignadxs movement in Spain: conflicts, resistances and collective learnings