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Author Cortese, Daniel K

Title Are We Thinking Straight? : the Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
Published Hoboken : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents Front cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Introduction; Chapter Two. Theory and Research Methods; Chapter Three. Organizational Diversity in SAGA; Chapter Four. "God Is on Our Side": The Mission of SAGA; Chapter Five. No Joking About the "S" in SAGA: "Straight" Strategy; Chapter Six. Political Environments Shape Identity Deployment; Chapter Seven. Straight Ahead and Moving Forward; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; References; Index; Back cover
Summary Explores the ways in which activists strategically use a 'straight' identity as a social movement tool in order to achieve the movement objectives. This book offers an analysis on the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization
Notes Print version record
Subject Straight and Gay Alliance.
SUBJECT Straight and Gay Alliance fast
Subject Homosexuality -- United States -- Societies, etc
Sexual minorities -- United States -- Societies, etc
Gay activists -- United States
Gay-straight alliances in schools -- United States
Social action -- United States
Gay people -- United States -- Identity
Gay rights -- United States
Organizational sociology.
Gay activists
Gay rights
Gay-straight alliances in schools
Gays -- Identity
Homosexuality -- Societies, etc.
Organizational sociology
Social action
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203959954
0203959957