The gay agenda
Subtitle: claiming space, identity, and justice
By: Gerald Walton, editor
Series: Counterpoints : studies in the postmodern theory of education -- v. 437; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 437.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781433118371; 9781433118364; 9781453911754
Subjects: Homosexuality and education; Gay college students; Sexual minority college students; Identity
Description: "The gay agenda is a rhetorical strategy deployed by the religious right and other social conservatives to magnify fear and hostility of queers. Queers are accused, among other things, of strategizing to recruit children into sexually deviant lifestyles; dismantling family and marriage as cornerstones of civilization; and forcing the entertainment industry and court systems to do their bidding. Queers certainly do have an agenda but it is not the one that the religious right claims it is. It is to assert their presence in the public space; claim and name their identities; and strategize for social justice in law, schools, and workplaces. The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of agenda and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and family, cultural influences, schooling and education, and politics and law."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Time is running out": lessons I have learned as a recovered fundamentalist "ex-gay" Christian  -- by Gerald Walton; title: LGBTQ Student Agendas: Voice, Dialogue, and Visibility  -- by Susan W. Woolley; title: Becoming an LGBTQ activist : the story of a young queer activist  -- by Ramón Robles-Fernández; title: The gay agenda in Ontario Catholic schools : gay-straight alliances as activist education  -- by Blair Niblett and Casey Oraa; title: Fucking the binary for social change : our radically queer agenda  -- by Avory Faucette; title: The quare agenda of RuPaul's Drag U  -- by Lisa Weems; title: Damn right we're here to destroy marriage!  -- by Ryan Conrad; title: Raising queerlings : parenting with a queer art of failure  -- by Michelle Walks; title: Indigenizing the gay agenda : notes on cultural relativism and homonationalism from the colonial margins  -- by Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour; title: "Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you" : examining queer activist spaces of Montreal and Toronto  -- by Billy Hébert; title: Queer activism and the severely normal agenda in Alberta, 1900-present : a continuing saga  -- by Gloria Filax; title: "Right" and wrong : LGBTQ and Ally Experiences at a Large, Southern U.S. University  -- by Joshua C. Collins and Tiffany McElmurry; title: "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin": The Clash of Religious and Sexual minority rights in Ontario Catholic schools  -- by Wayne J. Martino; title: My real "gay agenda" : exposing the holy homophobia of Catholic schools  -- by Tonya D. Callaghan; title: Learning gender, sexuality, and the "gay agenda" in schools  -- by Brian Burtch and Rebecca Haskell; title: Dismantling folk theories and claiming space within a social justice agenda  -- by Renée DePalma; title: Queering educational research and the politics of "conservatively queer" : sexmuteness in American public schools  -- by Jenna McWilliams; title: My "gay agenda" : a response to Focus on the Family  -- by Warren J. Blumenfeld; title: Our right to choose : religious conservatives versus LGBTQ inclusive schools  -- by Catherine Taylor; title: Queering schools, gay-straight alliances, and the law  -- by Donn Short; title: Affirming queer presence in schools, law, and society -- by Gerald Walton.