White as milk: Proposition 8 and the cultural politics of gay rights

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dc.contributor.authorLenon, Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-05T18:06:34Z
dc.date.available2018-07-05T18:06:34Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionOpen access. Article licensed under a CC-BY-NO-ND 3.0 Unported LIcenseen_US
dc.description.abstractAs part of the U.S. federal elections in November 2008, voters in California narrowly passed Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that eliminated same-sex marriage rights in that state. Against this political-legal backdrop, the movie Milk, based on the life of gay activist Harvey Milk, was released to audiences across North America. Proposition 8 and its aftermath infused social and cultural meaning into the critical acclaim Milk publicly received, and the movie itself became a way to both galvanize and anchor support for gay (marriage) rights. I contend that there is a particular racialization of queer sexuality and proximity to whiteness that links this moment of law and culture together. The paper examines the “knitted-togetherness” of the film’s racially normative representations and the racializing of homophobia that occurred on both sides of the Proposition 8 debate, one that continues the protracted fractioning of race as separate from sexuality within mainstream lesbian/gay politicsen_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationLenon, S. (2013). White as milk: Proposition 8 and the cultural politics of gay rights. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice, 36(1), 44-54.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5150
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMount Saint Vincent University. Institute for the Study of Womenen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Women and Gender Studiesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectProposition 8en_US
dc.subjectGay rightsen_US
dc.subjectGay marriageen_US
dc.subjectMilken_US
dc.subjectQueernessen_US
dc.subjectWhitenessen_US
dc.subjectHarvey Milk
dc.subject.lcshMilk, Harvey--Drama
dc.subject.lcshSame-sex marriage--California
dc.titleWhite as milk: Proposition 8 and the cultural politics of gay rightsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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