ABSTRACT
After years of intense debate, same-sex marriage has become a legal reality in many countries around the globe. As same-sex marriage laws spread, Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality asks: What will queer families and relationships look like on the ground?
Building on a major conference held in 2016 entitled "After Marriage: The Future of LGBTQ Politics and Scholarship," this collection draws from critical and intersectional perspectives to explore this question. Comprising academic papers, edited transcripts of conference panels, and interviews with activists working on the ground, this collection presents some of the first works of empirical scholarship and first-hand observation to assess the realities of queer families and relationships after same-sex marriage. Including a number of chapters focused on married same-sex couples as well as several on other queer family types, the volume considers the following key questions: What are the material impacts of marriage for same-sex couples? Is the spread of same-sex marriage pushing LGBTQ people toward more "normalized" types of relationships that resemble heterosexual marriage? And finally, how is the spread of same-sex marriage shaping other queer relationships that do not fit the marriage model?
By presenting scholarly research and activist observations on these questions, this volume helps translate queer critiques advanced during the marriage debates into a framework for ongoing critical research in the after-marriage period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part I|42 pages
The material impacts of same-sex marriage
chapter 1|14 pages
Living lesbian relationships in Madrid
chapter 2|15 pages
For the richer, not the poorer
part II|51 pages
Is marriage normalizing LGBTQ relationships?
chapter 4|14 pages
From public debate to private decision
chapter 6|13 pages
Simultaneous assimilation and innovation in the construction of queer families
part III|85 pages
The present and future of relational diversity