ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how jurisprudential enactments of anger work to push sexual intimacies and identities away from the injuries of exclusion and discrimination. Reading emotion analytically allows scholars to grasp how these jurisprudential expressions of anger arrange the terms through which law recognises injury and accommodates lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) intimacy and identity. Exclusion and discrimination have become measures of injury in law and this has precipitated angry demands from LGBT people for greater accommodation in public spaces and institutions. In addition to individual and collective expressions of anger, legal interventions that condemn LGBT discrimination crystallise and refract anger as a means to register and remedy forms of LGBT injury. Analysing anger in pro-LGBT cases shows how legal interventions strike back against the pain of discrimination. For LGBT people, anger over inequality shapes collective struggles to dismantle structures that injure nonconforming queer intimacies and identities.
