The Politics of Gay Rights

List of Contributors
Preface
1. The Context of Gay Politics
Kenneth D. Wald
I. The Gay Movement
2. Cycles of Change, Questions of Strategy: The Gay and Lesbian Movement after Fifty Years
John D'Emilio
3. Beyond Political Mainstreaming: Reflections on Lesbian and Gay Organizations and the Grassroots
Craig A. Rimmerman
4. Where Rhetoric Meets Reality: The Role of Black Lesbians and Gays in "Queer" Politics
Keith O. Boykin
5. Lesbian and Gay Policy Priorities: Commonality and Difference
Jean Reith Schroedel and Pamela Fiber
II. The Opposition
6. Antigay: Varieties of Opposition to Gay Rights
John C. Green
7. The Gay Agenda Is the Devil's Agenda: The Christian Right's Vision and the Role of the State
Didi Herman
8. Direct Democracy and Gay Rights Initiatives after Romer
Todd Donovan, Jim Wenzel, and Shaun Bowler
III. The Issues
9. DOMA and ENDA: Congress Votes on Gay Rights
Gregory B. Lewis and Jonathan L. Edelson
10. Gays and AIDS: Democratizing Disease?
Mark Carl Rom
11. Sex/uality and Military Service
Francine D'Amico
IV. The Arenas
12. The Politics of Gay Rights at the Local and State Level
James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D. Wald
13. Lesbian and Gay Politics in the States: Interest Groups, Electoral Politics, and Policy
Donald P. Haider-Markel
14. Gay and Lesbian Issues in the Congressional Arena
Colton C. Campbell and Roger H. Davidson
15. Sex and the Supreme Court: Gays, Lesbians, and Justice
Sarah E. Brewer, David Kaib, and Karen O'Connor
16. Gay Rights in the Public Sphere: Public Opinion on Gay and Lesbian Equality
Clyde Wilcox and Robin Wolpert
Index