Karen Sternheimer and Sally Raskoff discuss the California Supreme Court's 5/15 decision to overturn the ban on gay marriage, focusing on social movements.
Social change often leads to the creation of social movements that mobilize to counter changes too.
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I am not very optimistic about the recent lift on the gay marriage ban in California. I think there are a lot of other, broader issues that need to be addressed about gay equality that are larger than the marriage issue. This ruling is hopeful, but I hope people do not think this means that gays are now equals in American society. Sexuality equality could not be further from reality in most places in the states. As I said on my blog, the video on You Tube, for example, of Ellen announcing her wedding plans was met with the most homophobic, heterosexist comments I have seen. Complete hate speech. Does this court ruling signal vast social change? From my view, we have such a long way to go.
Posted by: B Gutsch | May 25, 2008 at 05:23 PM
B Gutsch--great points. Thanks for reminding us that one court ruling does not mean equality in the big picture.
Karen S.
Posted by: Karen S. | May 26, 2008 at 02:13 PM
You're either going to let it destroy you, be bigger than you or you be bigger than it," he said. "You have to go through conflict and disagreement. You can't shut down. You have to really be about your business, your money. If you quit, the label is not. They're going to keep going and make money. You do, too."
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