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The Path to Gay Rights : How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion /

An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory--transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority wo...

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Autor principal: Garretson, Jeremiah J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Part I. Introduction; 1. A Transformed Society: LGBT Rights in the United States; 2. Understanding Affective Liberalization; Part II. A Prelude to Change: LGBT Movement Development and Political Integration; 3. The Spread and Intensification of Gay and Lesbian Identities; 4. The Capture of the Democratic Party and the Clinton Victory; Part III. Public Response and the Nature of Social Change; 5. Issue Evolution? Gay Politics in the Early Clinton Years; 6. Coming Out, Entertainment Television, and the Youth Revolt 
505 0 |a 7. The Persistence of Political Conflict over Gay RightsPart IV. Looking toward the Future; 8. The Global Shift in Attitudes toward Homosexuality; 9. Social Change in Liberal Democracies; Appendix 1. Additional Information on Statistical Methods; Appendix 2. Additional Information on Data and Variable Coding; Notes; Index; About the Author 
520 |a An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory--transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally. Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinion--through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders--cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public's views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community's response to the AIDS crisis was a turning point for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS organizations strategically targeted political and media leaders, normalizing news coverage of LGBTQ issues and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was an increase in the number of LGBTQ people who came out and lived their lives openly, and with increased contact with gay people, public attitudes began to warm and change. Garretson goes beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to develop an evidence-based argument for how social movements can alter mass opinion on any contentious topic. 
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