Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1993
Abstract
The increasing visibility and political activism of the lesbian and gay community in this country has sparked a vicious backlash intended to reinforce restrictive notions of social morality and to stifle expressions of lesbian and gay identity. While this backlash has flourished in mainstream institutions, as in the U.S. Senate's hearings on lifting the military's ban against lesbians and gay men, it has also been incited on a grassroots level across the country by the Christian right wing, which has involved itself intimately in exploiting popular inclinations and reinforcing discrimination at the federal and local levels.
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Law | Sexuality and the Law
Recommended Citation
Mary Newcombe & Suzanne B. Goldberg,
Anti-Lesbian and -Gay Right Wing Initiatives: A Strategy for Response,
50
Guild. Prac.
88
(1993).
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