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Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

... Amy L. Stone ABSTRACT ... Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 31, 141–... more ... Amy L. Stone ABSTRACT ... Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 31, 141–174 Copyright r 2011 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 0163-786X/doi:10.1108/S0163-786X(2011)0000031008 141 ...

The Spanish Town parade is currently the largest Carnival parade in Baton Rouge, Louisianawith hu... more The Spanish Town parade is currently the largest Carnival parade in Baton Rouge, Louisianawith hundreds of thousands of attendees dressed in pink costuming, cross-dressing, and wearing pink flamingo paraphernalia. This chapter traces the queer origins of the Spanish Town parade to the racially integrated bohemian gayborhood of Spanish Town in the 1980s. Using interviews, archival research, and participant observation, I argue that current LGBTQ residents of Baton Rouge, even those who have never lived in Spanish Town, claim a vicarious citizenship to the neighborhood and parade through an understanding of the queer origins of the parade in the 1980s and the parade’s beginning in a gayborhood. This vicarious citizenship is tempered by the heterosexualization of the contemporary Spanish Town parade. Although LGBTQ residents still attend the parade in large numbers, there is more ambivalence about the homophobic imagery in the parade and the consumption of gay culture by heterosexual p...

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

The families of people of Color and indigenous people (POCI) are often analyzed as hostile instit... more The families of people of Color and indigenous people (POCI) are often analyzed as hostile institutions for sexual and gender diverse (SGD) adults. Using 58 interviews with SGD POCI from the Strengthening Colors of Pride 2018 Interview Study, we argue that Black and Latinx SGD adults gain resilience from family role models, mostly resilient mothers and othermothers. These resilient family members model three things: 1) how to overcome adversity and trauma, 2) being providers, and 3) emotional strength. This resilient modeling facilitates the adult resilience of SGD POCI who are navigating the complexity of intersections of race, sexuality, gender, poverty, and childhood trauma.

Journal of Lesbian Studies

Abstract In lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, gay male practices, se... more Abstract In lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, gay male practices, sexualities, and priorities often dominate. I argue that in mixed-gender LGBTQ festival spaces in the South, gay aesthetics are normative, which often minimizes the contributions of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women. I compare two festival events run by the LGBTQ community—Cornyation, a mock debutante pageant that is part of Fiesta in San Antonio, Texas, and Osiris Ball, a formal Carnival ball during Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. This research is based on participant observation data collected at both events over several years and 38 interviews conducted with event participants. I argue that at these events, gay aesthetic power is exerted through the expectation that LBQ women should master these aesthetics, a dynamic that often relies on gay men as arbiters of successful mastery. These processes were more dramatic in organizations and spaces where men were a numerical majority. This marginalization fits within a pattern of androcentric bias in both the arts and the workplace.

Journal of LGBT Youth

ABSTRACT This paper is a content analysis of political flyers and messages developed by Religious... more ABSTRACT This paper is a content analysis of political flyers and messages developed by Religious Right campaigns between 1974 and 2013 to fight legislation supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. The analysis focuses on 16 campaigns in which Religious Right groups made claims about transgender adults and children. In these messages (n = 60), transgender children are presented as similar to adults; campaigns frame these children as immutably gendered, confused, and sexually predatory. This research advances the body of literature on the adultification of minority children. I argue that transgender girls are adultified and sexualized rather than framed as innocent or imperiled, which perpetuates cisgender domination of transgender people.

Sociology Compass

Since the late 1970s, the Religious Right has mobilized to oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual, tra... more Since the late 1970s, the Religious Right has mobilized to oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement in the United States. Sociologists have studied the relationship between these two movements as a classic movement-countermovement dynamic, in which the strategies, actions, and framing of one movement impact the other. I analyze the way Religious Right reactive and proactive opposition to gay rights has affected the LGBTQ movement. First, I provide an overview of the literature on the negative impacts of the Religious Right, including the diversion of movement goals, transformation of frames, and marginalization of queer politics. Second, I examine the way Religious Right activism may increase mobilization. In 1977 a municipal ordinance about gay rights in Dade County, Florida, turned into a national spectacle when Anita Bryant, a well-known public figure, spearheaded a campaign to overturn the ordinance with a public vote (Fejes 2008). This campaign was one of the first public clashes between two emergent movements: the gay movement and the Religious Right. Both social movements were in their infancy with weak leadership, organizations, and organizing power. Over the next forty years, these two movements would embattle with each other in public debates, legal battles, and court cases as they both grew in strength. Scholars have studied the relationship between the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement and the Religious Right as a classic example of a movementcountermovement dynamic. Movements and countermovements operate in a sustained, oppositional relationship in which one movement impacts the other by making contested claims

Annual Review of Sociology, 2015

Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements has accelerated in recent ye... more Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements has accelerated in recent years. We take stock of this literature with a focus on the United States. Our review adopts a historical approach, surveying findings on three protest cycles: gay liberation and lesbian feminism, queer activism, and marriage equality. Existing scholarship focuses primarily on oscillations of the movement's collective identity between emphasizing similarities to the heterosexual mainstream and celebrating differences. We contrast earlier movement cycles mobilized around difference with efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. Our review highlights the turning points that led to shifts in protest cycles, and we trace the consequences for movement outcomes. Scholarship will advance if researchers recognize the path-dependent nature of social movements and that sameness and difference are not oppositional, static, or discrete choices. We conclude by recommending directions for future research.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015

This article is a revision of the previous edition article by D. Altman, volume 9, pp. 5895–5899,... more This article is a revision of the previous edition article by D. Altman, volume 9, pp. 5895–5899, © 2001, Elsevier Ltd.

Social Identities, 2011

... Somerville, S. 2000 ... White-led religious right organizations in Maine and Michigan sponsor... more ... Somerville, S. 2000 ... White-led religious right organizations in Maine and Michigan sponsored a rally of African American speakers, including former football player Reggie Jackson, vocal group The Winans Sisters, and Alveda Celeste King, the homophobic niece of Martin Luther ...

Sexualities, 2014

Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of ... more Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of hegemonic masculinity. According to Schippers, hegemonic femininity is maintained by the containment of pariah femininities, gender non-conforming femininities that may contaminate the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and femininity. We extend Schippers’ theory by analyzing the containment practices that are used to manage pariah femininities by examining the containment of lesbians in the sorority life of a liberal arts college in the USA. Using interviews and focus groups with sorority members, we demonstrate the way sorority members engage in subtle containment practices such as silencing to prevent lesbians from joining their sorority.

Journal of Homosexuality, 2013

Queer spaces are significant for understanding transgender inclusion as &... more Queer spaces are significant for understanding transgender inclusion as "queer spaces were places where individuals were expected to be attentive to or aware of alternative possibilities for being, including non-normative formulations of bodies, genders, desires and practices" ( Nash, 2011 , p. 203). Indeed, in this interview study of members of a queer leather group called the Club, members described a flexible "sexual landscape" that easily includes transgender members. However, these same queer spaces have been criticized for the way they regulate queer bodies and organize queer subjectivities. In this study, queer members of the Club also contrasted playful queer flexibility with serious transgender bodies. This article argues that, although there is a reiterative relation between transgender inclusion and queer spaces, the idealization of flexibility within queer spaces can also serve to marginalize and regulate transgender bodies.

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2010

Queer and radical criticisms of the LGBT movement have existed since the movement's origins.... more Queer and radical criticisms of the LGBT movement have existed since the movement's origins. Indeed, within any movement there are tensions between radicalism and liberalism, assimilation and separatism, and the role of professional or hierarchical organizations. Examining three recent publications on the LGBT movement, I argue that within the LGBT movement there is a tension between queer radicalism and professionalism (which is often conflated with homonormativity and assimilation.) As the national LGBT movement grew, it inevitably developed professional, formal organizations. Although a necessity in maintaining movement coherence and focus, professional organizations are also deeply problematic because of how they suppress dissent and radicalism. Professional organizations also incorporate corporate diversity culture, which is often staffed and led by white professionals and targets only visible and fundable identities such as race and gender.

American Anthropologist, 2007

Dissent, 2008

In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last sum... more In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last summer to the planned "Jade River" real estate redevelopment for some investigative reporting on the fate of Beijing's historic hutongs or alleyways. I was armed with a concealed camera inside a made-in-China purse. The producer also equipped me with the cell phone and e-mail persona of "Emily Tinari," a rich American, charmed by the traditional hutongs of old Beijing, lusting to own a courtyard house of her own.

Dissent, 2008

In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last sum... more In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last summer to the planned "Jade River" real estate redevelopment for some investigative reporting on the fate of Beijing's historic hutongs or alleyways. I was armed with a concealed camera inside a made-in-China purse. The producer also equipped me with the cell phone and e-mail persona of "Emily Tinari," a rich American, charmed by the traditional hutongs of old Beijing, lusting to own a courtyard house of her own.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

... Amy L. Stone ABSTRACT ... Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 31, 141–... more ... Amy L. Stone ABSTRACT ... Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 31, 141–174 Copyright r 2011 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN: 0163-786X/doi:10.1108/S0163-786X(2011)0000031008 141 ...

The Spanish Town parade is currently the largest Carnival parade in Baton Rouge, Louisianawith hu... more The Spanish Town parade is currently the largest Carnival parade in Baton Rouge, Louisianawith hundreds of thousands of attendees dressed in pink costuming, cross-dressing, and wearing pink flamingo paraphernalia. This chapter traces the queer origins of the Spanish Town parade to the racially integrated bohemian gayborhood of Spanish Town in the 1980s. Using interviews, archival research, and participant observation, I argue that current LGBTQ residents of Baton Rouge, even those who have never lived in Spanish Town, claim a vicarious citizenship to the neighborhood and parade through an understanding of the queer origins of the parade in the 1980s and the parade’s beginning in a gayborhood. This vicarious citizenship is tempered by the heterosexualization of the contemporary Spanish Town parade. Although LGBTQ residents still attend the parade in large numbers, there is more ambivalence about the homophobic imagery in the parade and the consumption of gay culture by heterosexual p...

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

The families of people of Color and indigenous people (POCI) are often analyzed as hostile instit... more The families of people of Color and indigenous people (POCI) are often analyzed as hostile institutions for sexual and gender diverse (SGD) adults. Using 58 interviews with SGD POCI from the Strengthening Colors of Pride 2018 Interview Study, we argue that Black and Latinx SGD adults gain resilience from family role models, mostly resilient mothers and othermothers. These resilient family members model three things: 1) how to overcome adversity and trauma, 2) being providers, and 3) emotional strength. This resilient modeling facilitates the adult resilience of SGD POCI who are navigating the complexity of intersections of race, sexuality, gender, poverty, and childhood trauma.

Journal of Lesbian Studies

Abstract In lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, gay male practices, se... more Abstract In lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) spaces, gay male practices, sexualities, and priorities often dominate. I argue that in mixed-gender LGBTQ festival spaces in the South, gay aesthetics are normative, which often minimizes the contributions of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women. I compare two festival events run by the LGBTQ community—Cornyation, a mock debutante pageant that is part of Fiesta in San Antonio, Texas, and Osiris Ball, a formal Carnival ball during Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. This research is based on participant observation data collected at both events over several years and 38 interviews conducted with event participants. I argue that at these events, gay aesthetic power is exerted through the expectation that LBQ women should master these aesthetics, a dynamic that often relies on gay men as arbiters of successful mastery. These processes were more dramatic in organizations and spaces where men were a numerical majority. This marginalization fits within a pattern of androcentric bias in both the arts and the workplace.

Journal of LGBT Youth

ABSTRACT This paper is a content analysis of political flyers and messages developed by Religious... more ABSTRACT This paper is a content analysis of political flyers and messages developed by Religious Right campaigns between 1974 and 2013 to fight legislation supportive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. The analysis focuses on 16 campaigns in which Religious Right groups made claims about transgender adults and children. In these messages (n = 60), transgender children are presented as similar to adults; campaigns frame these children as immutably gendered, confused, and sexually predatory. This research advances the body of literature on the adultification of minority children. I argue that transgender girls are adultified and sexualized rather than framed as innocent or imperiled, which perpetuates cisgender domination of transgender people.

Sociology Compass

Since the late 1970s, the Religious Right has mobilized to oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual, tra... more Since the late 1970s, the Religious Right has mobilized to oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement in the United States. Sociologists have studied the relationship between these two movements as a classic movement-countermovement dynamic, in which the strategies, actions, and framing of one movement impact the other. I analyze the way Religious Right reactive and proactive opposition to gay rights has affected the LGBTQ movement. First, I provide an overview of the literature on the negative impacts of the Religious Right, including the diversion of movement goals, transformation of frames, and marginalization of queer politics. Second, I examine the way Religious Right activism may increase mobilization. In 1977 a municipal ordinance about gay rights in Dade County, Florida, turned into a national spectacle when Anita Bryant, a well-known public figure, spearheaded a campaign to overturn the ordinance with a public vote (Fejes 2008). This campaign was one of the first public clashes between two emergent movements: the gay movement and the Religious Right. Both social movements were in their infancy with weak leadership, organizations, and organizing power. Over the next forty years, these two movements would embattle with each other in public debates, legal battles, and court cases as they both grew in strength. Scholars have studied the relationship between the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement and the Religious Right as a classic example of a movementcountermovement dynamic. Movements and countermovements operate in a sustained, oppositional relationship in which one movement impacts the other by making contested claims

Annual Review of Sociology, 2015

Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements has accelerated in recent ye... more Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements has accelerated in recent years. We take stock of this literature with a focus on the United States. Our review adopts a historical approach, surveying findings on three protest cycles: gay liberation and lesbian feminism, queer activism, and marriage equality. Existing scholarship focuses primarily on oscillations of the movement's collective identity between emphasizing similarities to the heterosexual mainstream and celebrating differences. We contrast earlier movement cycles mobilized around difference with efforts to legalize same-sex marriage. Our review highlights the turning points that led to shifts in protest cycles, and we trace the consequences for movement outcomes. Scholarship will advance if researchers recognize the path-dependent nature of social movements and that sameness and difference are not oppositional, static, or discrete choices. We conclude by recommending directions for future research.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015

This article is a revision of the previous edition article by D. Altman, volume 9, pp. 5895–5899,... more This article is a revision of the previous edition article by D. Altman, volume 9, pp. 5895–5899, © 2001, Elsevier Ltd.

Social Identities, 2011

... Somerville, S. 2000 ... White-led religious right organizations in Maine and Michigan sponsor... more ... Somerville, S. 2000 ... White-led religious right organizations in Maine and Michigan sponsored a rally of African American speakers, including former football player Reggie Jackson, vocal group The Winans Sisters, and Alveda Celeste King, the homophobic niece of Martin Luther ...

Sexualities, 2014

Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of ... more Mimi Schippers (2007) theorizes that hegemonic femininity operates in relation to and support of hegemonic masculinity. According to Schippers, hegemonic femininity is maintained by the containment of pariah femininities, gender non-conforming femininities that may contaminate the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and femininity. We extend Schippers’ theory by analyzing the containment practices that are used to manage pariah femininities by examining the containment of lesbians in the sorority life of a liberal arts college in the USA. Using interviews and focus groups with sorority members, we demonstrate the way sorority members engage in subtle containment practices such as silencing to prevent lesbians from joining their sorority.

Journal of Homosexuality, 2013

Queer spaces are significant for understanding transgender inclusion as &... more Queer spaces are significant for understanding transgender inclusion as "queer spaces were places where individuals were expected to be attentive to or aware of alternative possibilities for being, including non-normative formulations of bodies, genders, desires and practices" ( Nash, 2011 , p. 203). Indeed, in this interview study of members of a queer leather group called the Club, members described a flexible "sexual landscape" that easily includes transgender members. However, these same queer spaces have been criticized for the way they regulate queer bodies and organize queer subjectivities. In this study, queer members of the Club also contrasted playful queer flexibility with serious transgender bodies. This article argues that, although there is a reiterative relation between transgender inclusion and queer spaces, the idealization of flexibility within queer spaces can also serve to marginalize and regulate transgender bodies.

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2010

Queer and radical criticisms of the LGBT movement have existed since the movement's origins.... more Queer and radical criticisms of the LGBT movement have existed since the movement's origins. Indeed, within any movement there are tensions between radicalism and liberalism, assimilation and separatism, and the role of professional or hierarchical organizations. Examining three recent publications on the LGBT movement, I argue that within the LGBT movement there is a tension between queer radicalism and professionalism (which is often conflated with homonormativity and assimilation.) As the national LGBT movement grew, it inevitably developed professional, formal organizations. Although a necessity in maintaining movement coherence and focus, professional organizations are also deeply problematic because of how they suppress dissent and radicalism. Professional organizations also incorporate corporate diversity culture, which is often staffed and led by white professionals and targets only visible and fundable identities such as race and gender.

American Anthropologist, 2007

Dissent, 2008

In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last sum... more In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last summer to the planned "Jade River" real estate redevelopment for some investigative reporting on the fate of Beijing's historic hutongs or alleyways. I was armed with a concealed camera inside a made-in-China purse. The producer also equipped me with the cell phone and e-mail persona of "Emily Tinari," a rich American, charmed by the traditional hutongs of old Beijing, lusting to own a courtyard house of her own.

Dissent, 2008

In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last sum... more In the best 60 Minutes tradition, a China Central Television (CCTV) producer sent me out last summer to the planned "Jade River" real estate redevelopment for some investigative reporting on the fate of Beijing's historic hutongs or alleyways. I was armed with a concealed camera inside a made-in-China purse. The producer also equipped me with the cell phone and e-mail persona of "Emily Tinari," a rich American, charmed by the traditional hutongs of old Beijing, lusting to own a courtyard house of her own.