Respectably Queer Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations

Name: Respectably Queer Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations
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ISBN: 9780826516077

ISBN-10: 0826516076

ISBN-13: 9780826516077

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jane Ward

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For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site organization; and Bienestar, an HIV services organization for gay Latinos. Ward documents the evolution of these organizations, including class and race conflicts within them, but she especially focuses on the misuses of diversity culture. Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the daily life of a progressive movement and producing frequent conflicts over the meaning of "diversity." The…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.80" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English