11. It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango: Fighting With Words in the Conflict Over Same-Sex Marriage

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. The Challenge of Law: Sexual Orientation, 1 Gender Identity, and Social Movements 1
5. Part I. Social Movement Strategies and the Law
6. 2. Deferral of Legal Tactics: A Global LGBT Social Movement Organization’s Perspective 21
7. 3. Queer Legal Victories: Intersectionality Revisited 38
8. 4. Intimate Equality: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement’s Legal Framing of Sodomy Laws in the Lawrence v. Texas Case 52
9. 5. Deciding Under the Influence? The “One-Hit Wonders” and Organized-Interest Participation in U.S. Supreme Court Gay Rights Litigation 76
10. 6. Parents and Paperwork: Same-Sex Parents, Birth Certificates, and Emergent Legality 103
11. Part II. Activism, Discourse, and Legal Change
12. 7. The Reform of Sodomy Laws From a World Society Perspective 123
13. 8. Like Sexual Orientation? Like Gender? Transgender Inclusion in Nondiscrimination Ordinances 142
14. 9. Pushing the Envelope: Dillon’s Rule and Local Domestic-Partnership Ordinances 158
15. 10. Explaining the Differences: Transgender 187 Theories and Court Practice 187
16. Part III. Legal Symbols: Constraints and Possibilities
17. 11. It Takes (at Least) Two to Tango: Fighting With Words in the Conflict Over Same-Sex Marriage 207
18. 12. Do Civil Rights Have a Face? Reading the Iconography of Special Rights 231
19. 13. A Jury of One’s Queers: Revisiting the Dan White Trial Casey Charles 257
20. 14. The Gay Divorcée: The Case of the Missing Argument 281
21. Notes 303
22. References 321
23. Contributors 355
24. Index 359