Respectable Queerness

53 Pages Posted: 14 Apr 2012 Last revised: 22 Apr 2019

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Yuvraj Joshi

Brooklyn Law School; UCLA Promise Institute of Human Rights; UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law; University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law

Date Written: March 3, 2012

Abstract

This Article proposes a new theoretical framework to understand public recognition of gay people and relationships. This framework — called “respectable queerness” — suggests that public recognition of gay people and relationships is contingent upon their acquiring a respectable social identity that is actually constituted by public performances of respectability and by privately queer practices. The challenges posed by such recognition include dissonance between one’s public and private selves and fueling moralism and entrenching divisions between different queer constituencies.

Keywords: same-sex marriage, gay marriage, LGBT rights, LGBT politics, queer politics, queer theory

Suggested Citation

Joshi, Yuvraj, Respectable Queerness (March 3, 2012). Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, p. 415, 2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2015349

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