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03201aam a2200373 i 4500 001 2C42E38019C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170405010226 008 161018t20172017mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2016043742 020 $a 0674972198 020 $a 9780674972193 035 $a (OCoLC)959649250 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF4754.5 B35 2017 100 1 $a Ball, Carlos A., $e author. 245 14 $a The First Amendment and LGBT equality : $b a contentious history / $c Carlos A. Ball. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 349 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "Conservative opponents of LGBT equality in the United States often couch their opposition in claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is no surprise, then, that many LGBT supporters equate First Amendment arguments with resistance to their cause. The First Amendment and LGBT Equality tells another story, about the First Amendment's crucial, yet largely forgotten, role in the first few decades of the gay rights movement. Between the 1950s and 1980s, when many courts were still openly hostile to sexual minorities, they nonetheless recognized the freedom of gay and lesbian people to express themselves and associate with one another. Successful First Amendment cases protected LGBT publications and organizations, protests and parades, and individuals' right to come out. The amendment was wielded by the other side only after it had laid the groundwork for major LGBT equality victories. Carlos A. Ball illuminates the full trajectory of this legal and cultural history. He argues that, in accommodating those who dissent from LGBT equality on grounds of conscience, it is neither necessary nor appropriate to depart from the established ways in which American antidiscrimination law has, for decades, accommodated equality dissenters. But he also argues that as progressives fight the First Amendment claims of religious conservatives and other LGBT opponents today, they should take care not to erode the very safeguards of liberty that allowed LGBT rights to exist in the first place"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Moral displacement and obscenity law -- Coming together and free expression -- Coming out and free expression -- Activism in and out of the courts -- The race and gender precedents -- LGBT equality and the right to exclude -- Marriage equality and religious liberty. 610 10 $a United States. $t Constitution. $n 1st Amendment. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Gay rights $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Freedom of expression $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Discrimination $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032553.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605015559.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2C42E38019C611E7BD0085CCDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search