ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book outlines how “queer affect theory” offers a queer legal scholar a rich set of analytic tools to explore the interaction of emotion and law reform designed to progress the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people by remedying their injuries and affirming their intimacies and identities. It discusses disgust to situate how case law crystallised and refracted individual people’s disgust towards homosexuality to render queer intimacy and identity visible through judicial expressions of revulsion and recoil. The book looks at pro-LGBT refugee cases as another area of law that has sought to accommodate LGBT people fleeing persecution. It explores how the exclusive love between same-sex partners was recognised and refracted in marriage equality jurisprudence from the US that “equalised love” by legally elevating same-sex relationships and faithfully binding them to a single ideal of marriage.
