Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality

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After years of intense debate, same-sex marriage has become a legal reality in many countries around the globe. As same-sex marriage laws spread, Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality asks: What will queer families and relationships look like on the ground? Building on a major conference held in 2016 entitled "After Marriage: The Future of LGBTQ Politics and Scholarship," this collection draws from critical and intersectional perspectives to explore this question. Comprising academic papers, edited transcripts of conference panels, and interviews with activists working on the ground, this collection presents some of the first works of empirical scholarship and first-hand observation to assess the realities of queer families and relationships after same-sex marriage. Including a number of chapters focused on married same-sex couples as well as several on other queer family types, the volume considers the following key questions: What are the material impacts of marriage for same-sex couples? Is the spread of same-sex marriage pushing LGBTQ people toward more "normalized" types of relationships that resemble heterosexual marriage? And finally, how is the spread of same-sex marriage shaping other queer relationships that do not fit the marriage model? By presenting scholarly research and activist observations on these questions, this volume helps translate queer critiques advanced during the marriage debates into a framework for ongoing critical research in the after-marriage period. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Illustrations Contributors Preface Introduction : For better or for worse? Relational landscapes in the time of same-sex marriage PART I The material impacts of same-sex marriage 1 Living lesbian relationships in Madrid: queering life and families in times of straight living fossils 2 For the richer, not the poorer: marriage equality, financial security, and the promise of queer economic justice 3 “What makes our conflicts queer?” An interview with Rachel Epstein PART II Is marriage normalizing LGBTQ relationships? 4 From public debate to private decision: the normalization of marriage among critical LGBQ people 5 Reflections on marriage equality as a vehicle for LGBTQ political transformation 6 Simultaneous assimilation and innovation in the construction of queer families: married same-sex couples in Cape Town, South Africa 7 From homonormativity to polynormativity: representing consensual non-monogamy PART III The present and future of relational diversity 8 The Beyond Same-Sex Marriage statement ten years later 9 Making connections: an interview with Ignacio G. Rivera 10 Beyond the sex–love–marriage alignment: xinghun among queer people in mainland China 11 “Zoning is a way of sorting people”: an interview with the Scarborough Family 12 Queer street families: place-making and community among LGBT youth of color in iconic gay neighborhoods 13 Future fronts in the fight for family diversity: a panel discussion Index