QPP Webinar: LGBTQ Respectability Politics

Phil Jones (Delaware)
Date & Time Feb 18 2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Speaker(s)
Philip Jones
Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required

Philip Jones 

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware

Marginalized groups frequently engage in respectability politics, presenting themselves as adhering to dominant norms in order to gain public support. The LGBTQ movement, for example, has consciously portrayed same-sex relationships as aligned with heteronormative values to win over straight Americans. But how effective is this strategy?

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Sponsored by:

Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies