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04805aam a2200517 i 4500 001 7894DC3C6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 008 181012t20192019nyua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2018037004 020 $a 0190685212 020 $a 9780190685218 035 $a (OCoLC)1047660829 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CLU $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HQ75.7 $b .K78 2019 082 00 $a 306.76/6 $2 23 084 $a HIS054000 $a REL084000 $a HIS054000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Krutzsch, Brett, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Dying to be normal : $b gay martyrs and the transformation of American sexual politics / $c Brett Krutzsch. 263 $a 1902 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xiii, 249 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Memorialization, gay assimilation, and American religion -- The "Gay M.L.K." : Harvey Milk -- The "Crucifixion" of "anyone's gay son" : Matthew Shepard -- The "epidemic of bullying and gay teen suicides" : Tyler Clementi and It Gets Better -- "The place where two discriminations meet" : race, gender, and the threat of violence -- Epilogue : The Pulse Nightclub Massacre and the queer potential of memorialization. 520 $a " On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who had been murdered in Wyoming eight days earlier. Politicians and celebrities addressed the crowd and the televised national audience to share their grief with the country. Never before had a gay citizen's murder elicited such widespread outrage or concern from straight Americans. In Dying to Be Normal, Brett Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians. Through an examination of publicly mourned gay deaths, Krutzsch counters the common perception that LGBT politics and religion have been oppositional and reveals how gay activists used religion to bolster the argument that gays are essentially the same as straights, and therefore deserving of equal rights. Krutzsch's analysis turns to the memorialization of Shepard, Harvey Milk, Tyler Clementi, Brandon Teena, and F. C. Martinez, to campaigns like the It Gets Better Project, and national tragedies like the Pulse nightclub shooting to illustrate how activists used prominent deaths to win acceptance, influence political debates over LGBT rights, and encourage assimilation. Throughout, Krutzsch shows how, in the fight for greater social inclusion, activists relied on Christian values and rhetoric to portray gays as upstanding Americans. As Krutzsch demonstrates, gay activists regularly reinforced a white Protestant vision of acceptable American citizenship that often excluded people of color, gender-variant individuals, non-Christians, and those who did not adhere to Protestant Christianity's sexual standards. The first book to detail how martyrdom has influenced national debates over LGBT rights, Dying to Be Normal establishes how religion has shaped gay assimilation in the United States and the mainstreaming of particular gays as "normal" Americans. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "The first book to detail how gay martyrs influenced national debates over LGBT rights, Dying to be Normal establishes how religion shaped gay assimilation in the United States and the mainstreaming of particular gays as "normal" Americans worthy of equal rights"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gay activists $z United States. 650 0 $a Martyrs $z United States. 650 0 $a Sex $z United States. 650 0 $a Homosexuality $z United States $z United States $x Religious aspects. 650 7 $a RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Gay activists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939048 650 7 $a Homosexuality $x Religious aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959782 650 7 $a Martyrs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010918 650 7 $a Sex. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114160 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Krutzsch, Brett, 1979- $t Dying to be normal $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019 $z 9780190685225 $w (OCoLC)1060182590 $w (OCoLC)1060182590 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011232.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210023639.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7894DC3C6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search