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Respectable Queerness
Columbia Human Rights Law Review (2012)
  • Yuvraj Joshi, Yale Law School
Abstract

This Article proposes a new theoretical framework to understand public recognition of gay people and relationships. This framework—called “respectable queerness”—suggests that public recognition of gay people and relationships is contingent upon their acquiring a respectable social identity that is actually constituted by public performances of respectability and by privately queer practices. The challenges posed by such recognition include dissonance between one’s public and private selves and fuelling moralism and entrenching divisions between different queer constituencies.

Publication Date
Winter 2012
Citation Information
Yuvraj Joshi. "Respectable Queerness" Columbia Human Rights Law Review Vol. 43 Iss. 2 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yuvrajjoshi/3/