From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five Lgbt Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation (Queer Action/ Queer Ideas) - Hardcover

Ball, Carlos A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807000787 ISBN 13: 9780807000786

Publisher: Beacon Pr, 2010

Synopsis

The advancement of LGBT rights has come about through struggles large and small—on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward—and behind every lawsuit is a human story. A landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay man from his home after his partner of ten years dies of AIDS; school officials in Wisconsin look the other way as a gay teenager is repeatedly and viciously harassed by other students; a lesbian couple shows up at a clerk’s office in Hawaii seeking a marriage license.

In From the Closet to the Courtroom, law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind these crucial lawsuits. Beginning each case narrative at the center, with the litigants, Ball broadens the framework to include society at large, before stepping back to deftly weave in the lawyers’ stories and their arguments. A richly layered and multifaceted account, Ball vividly and accessibly documents how these judicial victories have significantly altered LGBT lives today in ways that were unimaginable only a generation ago.

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About the Authors

Carlos A. Ball is professor of law at the Rutgers University School of Law (Newark), has written extensively on LGBT rights issues, and is the author of The Morality of Gay Rights. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

Carlos A. Ball is professor of law at the Rutgers Uni­versity School of Law (Newark). He has written exten­sively on LGBT rights issues, is the author of The Morality of Gay Rights, and has received a Dukeminier Award from UCLA’s Williams Institute for excellence in sexual orientation and the law scholarship. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beacon Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807000787
• ISBN 13: 9780807000786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286