...Gustavus Stadler This essay examines contemporary lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) activism in the light of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's important Social Text piece from 1991, “How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay.” It revisits the restrictive views of gender that she discovered in the psychotherapeutic...

... of “overkill” as a way of apprehending a queer ontology that stands in contrast to the security of an LGBT identity. That the murdered were working class and largely people of color and/or trans/gender nonconforming marks this interpersonal violence as a restaging of larger iterations of necropolitical state...

...Jasbir K. Puar “Transgender rights are the civil rights issue of our time.” So stated Vice President Joe Biden just one week before the November 2012 election. This article critically reframes calls such as this by foregrounding a historical trajectory not celebrated by national LGBT groups...

..., as well as those in nationally used LGBT-specific surveys, such as the joint 2011 survey produced by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, as well as federal census questions and community-produced surveys used in local needs assessment projects...

... (Minneapolis: Uni- versity of Minnesota Press, 2009), 83 – 109; Chad Heap, Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885 – 1940 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); St. Sukie de la Croix, Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT...

...: Responding to LGBT Health Disparities, ed. R. Barker and T. McAuliffe (St. Louis: Missouri Foundation for Health, August 2012), www.mffh.org/mm/files /LGBTHealthEquityReport.pdf; Kevin L. Ard and Harvey J. Makadon, Improving the Health Care of Lesbian...

... self-interested but also to the conservative concepts of adjustment and adaptation that are central both to neoliberal governance and to the psychological movement that sought to depathologize homosexuality. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 LGBT queer neoliberalism social media coming...

...,” featuring a map of the Nazi occupation of Europe and the Celtic cross, etc.) as well as graffiti against all other marginal groups of the Slovenian society (“Rape feminists”; “Refugees raus, we have enough of our vermin/čefurs . . . ”; “LGBT is degeneration, degradation, decadence!”; “Stop LGBT revolution...

...), Jasbir Puar's elaborations of homonationalism in Terrorist Assemblages (2007), and Chandan Reddy's Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (2011), constitute a vital pushback against an LGBT respectability politics of inclusion that aligns itself comfortably with the violence...

... Context .” April 2 2021 . www.stalled.online/historicalcontext . Steinmetz Katy . “ Why LGBT Advocates Say Bathroom ‘Predators’ Argument Is a Red Herring .” Time , May 2 , 2016 , time.com/4314896/transgender-bathroom-bill-male-predators-argument/ . Stryker Susan . “ Everyone...

... sufferers and LGBT rights. The biopic presents family reunification in the promised land of America as the dying wish of the young activist, appropriating his counterpublicity to US economic and cultural triumpha- lism. US policy toward Cuba is presented...

... to underwrite the way claims concerning legal rights about sex and gender are made in the United States—and often, by extension or imitation, around the world. Although one now hears less about sexual politics per se and more about feminism, LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and, increasingly, activism against...

...-­declared as queer or even LGBT. To think along these grooves we should resist the impulse to simply “queer” an object, phenomenon, or historical moment and instead attend to it with an understanding of lines of queer genealogical connectivity as something...

... and Indigenous nations’ self-determining authority. And though Coulthard does not cite queer theory, his critique resonates with those scholars who have questioned the homonormative logics of marriage equality, military service, and LGBT civil rights within the settler state. But instead of using queer...

..., in relation to a perceived decline in the efficacy of LGBT and AIDS activism, and the apparent rise of a diminished political consciousness among young people in the city, see Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination...

... the interviews with LGBT immigrants of color collected for this study; all archived at the Audre Lorde Project. 118 Chandan Reddy ST84-85-07_Reddy.indd 118 10/19/05...

... reach the present day of the film’s main plot thirty years on, NAMBLA is segregated from mainstream LGBT movements and the 1997 rape and murder of ten-­year-­old Jeffrey Curley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will result in a wrongful death suit against...

... of queer youth communities and emo subculture in Brian Peters, “Emo Gay Boys and Subculture: Postpunk Queer Youth and (Re)thinking Images of Masculinity,” Journal of LGBT Youth 7, no. 2 (2010): 129 – 46. 41. The ubiquity and proliferation of these memes is typical of material cir- culating...

... most prominently, in queer and LGBT communities. There is yet work to be done in thinking about the connections between these various groups’ conceptu- alizations of being in the life. 17. Hortense J. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe...

... contexts and redoubles it so that it no longer bears the referential burden of racist hate. This kind of resignification, however, does not necessarily involve the revaluation of the racial slur on the part of the Asian subject (in the way that LGBT activists...