A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized
times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing
the impacts within each rights movement. Queer Alliances
investigates coalition formation among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor
rights activists in the United States, revealing how these new
alliances impact political movement formation. In the early 2000s,
the LGBTQ and immigrant rights movements operated separately from
and, sometimes, in a hostile manner towards each other. Since 2008,
by contrast, major alliances have formed at the national and state
level across these communities. Yet, this new coalition formation
came at a cost. Today, coalitions across these communities have
been largely reluctant to address issues of police brutality, mass
incarceration, economic inequality, and the ruthless immigrant
regulatory complex. Queer Alliances examines the extent to which
grassroots groups bridged historic divisions based on race, gender,
class, and immigration status through the development of
coalitions, looking specifically at coalition building around
expanding LGBTQ rights in Washington State and immigrant and
migrant rights in Arizona. Erin Mayo-Adam traces the evolution of
political movement formation in each state, and shows that while
the movements expanded, they simultaneously ossified around goals
that matter to the most advantaged segments of their respective
communities. Through a detailed, multi-method study that involves
archival research and in-depth interviews with organization leaders
and advocates, Queer Alliances centers local, coalition-based
mobilization across and within multiple movements rather than
national campaigns and court cases that often occur at the end of
movement formation. Mayo-Adam argues that the construction of
common political movement narratives and a shared core of opponents
can help to explain the paradoxical effects of coalition formation.
On the one hand, the development of shared political movement
narratives and common opponents can expand movements in some
contexts. On the other hand, the episodic nature of rights-based
campaigns can simultaneously contain and undermine movement
expansion, reinforcing movement divisions. Mayo-Adam reveals the
extent to which inter- and intra-movement coalitions, formed to win
rights or thwart rights losses, represent and serve
intersectionally marginalized communities-who are often absent from
contemporary accounts of social movement formation.
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