ABSTRACT
In 2008, Florida voters approved the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment, The official ballot language read as follows: "Marriage as the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife. This chapter explores the electoral geographies of Proposition by examining the spatial distribution of the vote through a lens of the cultural politics of sexuality. It begins with a brief overview of the scalar implications of the debate on same sex marriage in the United Sates, followed by a discussion of Florida's "place" in the national debate. The chapter then examine the socio-cultural implications of the debate that lead up to the actual vote, taking a cue from the recent subgenre of work that invokes a critical and post-positivist approach towards the cultural politics of sexuality and electoral outcomes. It concludes with a discussion of the spatial outcome of the vote, revealing a multiplicity of cultural, social, and political geographies at the local scale.
