Progay/Antigay: The Rhetorical War Over SexualitySAGE Publications, 03.02.2000 - 264 Seiten Combining humanistic rhetorical criticism with social scientific concepts, Ralph R. Smith and Russel R. Windes examine how the discourse of the progay/antigay debate shapes the self-understanding and strategies of the two opposing sides. The struggle over issues such as lesbians and gay men serving openly in the military, same-sex marriage, and inclusion of "sexual orientation" in anti-discrimination and hate crime laws have evolved along with the development of rival progay and traditionalist antigay communities. In the process of presenting their arguments to the wider society, the two sides exercise extraordinary influence on each other. As a result of the public policy debates, the progay movement has moved toward an essentialist, non-sexual identity, while the traditionalists have shifted toward a secular public self-representation. Progay/Antigay also analyzes the internal disagreements within the two movements. The same-sex marriage debate illustrates important dimensions of the contest over sexuality. The authors examine rhetorical strategy and counter-strategy in this specific institutional context. Progay/Antigay also discusses how the study of the variant sexuality issue provides the opportunity to assess paths for reconciliation and to judge concepts of political pluralism and multiculturalism. |
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... organizations and actors inter- pret grievances and generate consensus on belief and action ... create col- lective identities ... produce frames of meaning ... vocabularies of mo- tive , and social dramas necessary to mobilize ...
... organizations dedicated to influencing public sentiment , gay / lesbian and traditionalist advocates . have become principal voices in our present complex controversy about variant sexuality . Unraveling the complexity of this ...
... organizations between 1965 and 1996 reveals that , while public disapproval of homosexuality remained remarkably stable at the 70 % level between 1973 and 1991 , there was a 20 % drop in disapproval rates during the 1990s which results ...
... factual assertions and appeals about variant sex- uality has been created by clusters of organizations whose spokespersons use competing languages and logics to advance adversarial positions . Variant Sexuality Issue Culture 5.
... organizations , are locked in combat with the Human Rights Campaign , the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force , the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund , and a myriad of other progay grassroots groups . Clarity is , of course ...
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Chapter 2 Analysis of Communication in Contests Over Variant Sexuality | 35 |
Chapter 3 Appeals in Progay and Traditionalist Discourses | 57 |
Chapter 4 Antagonistic Construction of Identity and Conflict | 93 |
Chapter 5 Debate Within Communities | 127 |
A Case Study | 155 |
Chapter 7 Criticism of the Variant Sexuality Issue Culture | 181 |
References | 203 |
Index | 227 |
About the Authors | 239 |