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LGBT Inclusion in American Life - Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights (Hardcover)
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LGBT Inclusion in American Life - Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights (Hardcover)
Series: LGBTQ Politics
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A compelling explanation of the American public's acceptance of
LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture How did gay people go
from being characterized as dangerous perverts to military heroes
and respectable parents? How did the interests of the LGBT movement
and the state converge to transform mainstream political and legal
norms in these areas? Using civil rights narratives, pop culture,
and critical theory, LGBT Inclusion in American Life tells the
story of how exclusion was transformed into inclusion in US
politics and society, as pop culture changed mainstream Americans
thinking about "non-gay" issues, namely privacy, sex and gender
norms, and family. Susan Burgess explores films such as Casablanca,
various James Bond movies, and Julie and Julia, and television
shows such as thirtysomething and The Americans, as well as the
Broadway sensation Hamilton, as sources of growing popular support
for LGBT rights. By drawing on popular culture as a rich source of
public understanding, Burgess explains how the greater public came
to accept and even support the three central pillars of LGBT
freedoms in the post-World War II era: to have consensual adult sex
without fear of criminal penalty, to serve openly in the military,
and to marry legally. LGBT Inclusion in American Life argues that
pop culture can help us to imagine unknown futures that lead beyond
what we currently desire from contemporary politics, and in return
asks now that the mainstream public has come to accept LGBT
freedoms, where might the popular imagination be headed in the
future?
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