Irreconcilable Differences?
Subtitle: Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: August 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780275977214
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Gay studies (Gay men); Social Science; Sociology; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; USA; Lesbian Studies; Rhetoric; Sociology - General; Social Science / Lesbian Studies; Gay Studies; Gay rights; Homosexuality; Religious aspects
First sentence: Recent events, like the easy passage of the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, the narrow defeat (50 to 49) of the pro-gay Employment NonDiscrimination Act, and a barrage of accusations and counteraccusations following Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's (R-Miss) claim that homosexuality is comparable to alcoholism, sex addiction, and kleptomania (Lawrence 5A) illustrate how fundamentally divided Americans are over the issue of what freedoms and what limits can be justly applied to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered/transsexual people (LGBT).