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Krutzsch, Brett, 1979-
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Gay activists -- United States.
Martyrs -- United States.
Sex -- United States.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Krutzsch, Brett, 1979-
Gay activists -- United States.
Martyrs -- United States.
Sex -- United States.
Homosexuality -- United States -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Dying to be normal :
gay
martyrs and the transformation of American sexual politics / Brett Krutzsch.
by
Krutzsch, Brett, 1979-
Oxford University Press, 2019.
Call #:
306.766 K94d
Subjects
Gay
activists
--
United
States
.
Martyrs
--
United
States
.
Sex
--
United
States
.
Homosexuality
--
United
States
--
Religious aspects
--
Christianity.
ISBN:
9780190685218 (hc)
Description:
xiii, 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
Summary:
"On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a
gay
college student who had been murdered in Wyoming eight days earlier. Politicians and celebrities addressed the crowd and the televised national audience to share their grief with the country. Never before had a
gay
citizen's murder elicited such widespread outrage or concern from straight Americans. In Dying to Be Normal, Brett Krutzsch argues that
gay
activists
memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians. Through an examination of publicly mourned
gay
deaths, Krutzsch counters the common perception that LGBT politics and religion have been oppositional and reveals how
gay
activists
used religion to bolster the argument that gays are essentially the same as straights, and therefore deserving of equal rights. Krutzsch's analysis turns to the memorialization of Shepard, Harvey Milk, Tyler Clementi, Brandon Teena, and F. C. Martinez, to campaigns like the It Gets Better Project, and national tragedies like the Pulse nightclub shooting to illustrate how
activists
used prominent deaths to win acceptance, influence political debates over LGBT rights, and encourage assimilation. Throughout, Krutzsch shows how, in the fight for greater social inclusion,
activists
relied on Christian values and rhetoric to portray gays as upstanding Americans. As Krutzsch demonstrates,
gay
activists
regularly reinforced a white Protestant vision of acceptable American citizenship that often excluded people of color, gender-variant individuals, non-Christians, and those who did not adhere to Protestant Christianity's sexual standards. The first book to detail how martyrdom has influenced national debates over LGBT rights, Dying to Be Normal establishes how religion has shaped
gay
assimilation in the
United
States
and the mainstreaming of particular gays as "normal" Americans. "--Publisher.
"The first book to detail how
gay
martyrs influenced national debates over LGBT rights, Dying to be Normal establishes how religion shaped
gay
assimilation in the
United
States
and the mainstreaming of particular gays as "normal" Americans worthy of equal rights"--Publisher.
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