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Acknowledgments | |
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Queer Families and the Politics of Visibility | |
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Relationships | |
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In/Visibility | |
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A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography | |
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Weddings Without Marriage: Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Commitment Rituals | |
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"We Can See Them, But We Can't Hear Them": LGBT Members of African American Families | |
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Talking Freaks: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families on Daytime Talk TV | |
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One Man's Story of Being Gay and Dine (Navajo): A Study in Resiliency | |
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Communicating Our Relationships | |
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Family Secrets, or ... How to Become a Bisexual Alien Without Really Trying | |
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A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences | |
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Constituting Nonmonogamies | |
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Communication in "Asian American" Families with Queer Members: A Relational Dialectics Perspective | |
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Parenthood | |
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Becoming Parents | |
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Affording Our Families: Class Issues in Family Formation | |
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Should Lesbians Count as Infertile Couples? Antilesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction | |
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Protecting Our Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption | |
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Parenthood | |
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"My Daddy Loves Your Daddy": A Gay Father Encounters a Social Movement | |
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Alma Mater: Family "Outings" and the Making of the Modern Other Mother (MOM) | |
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Lesbian Mothers at Work | |
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"Aside From One Little, Tiny Detail, We Are So Incredibly Normal": Perspectives of Children in Lesbian Step Families | |
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Political Activism | |
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The Marrying Kind? | |
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Building Common Ground: Strategies for Grassroots Organizing on Same-Sex Marriage | |
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"What If?" The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples | |
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Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible | |
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Defense, Morality, Civil Rights, and Family: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Issues in the U.S. Congress | |
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Gender Transgressions and Queer Family Law | |
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Political Organizing and the Limits of Civil Rights: Gay Marriage and Queer Families | |
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Transgenderism and Sexual Orientation: More Than a Marriage of Convenience? | |
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Gender, Queer Family Policies, and the Limits of Law | |
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List of Contributors | |
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Index | |