What’s Love Got To Do With It?: Emotion, Rationality, and Framing LGBT Rights

Harrison, Brian F.; Michelson, Melissa R.

doi:10.1080/07393148.2017.1301311

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“…Relatedly, it is noteworthy that, even in response to Interview Question 16 asking about Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), not a single participant expressed any strong emotions or reactions to the ruling itself, instead focusing on their desire and motivation to build a family. This seems to support the notion that systemic prejudice and discrimination serve as barriers along people’s natural paths toward fulfillment and, once those barriers are removed, people resume their focus on their personal goals and ideals rather naturally (Calvo & Trujillo, 2011; Harrison & Michelson, 2017).…”

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“…Data found that when these women are forced to conform to the ideals of traditional femininity and womanhood, they can begin to struggle with their female identity and/or feminine role. This is all despite the general endorsement of the institution of marriage as a source of love, support, and stable family life (Harrison & Michelson, 2017). In essence, lesbian and bisexual women seem to be left to rediscover their interest and role in marriage only after eschewing it as an institution reserved for women adhering to the heteronormative ideals communicated in their childhood.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This rediscovery is evident among participants raised in traditional heteronormative families. Respondents in this age cohort used their growing experiences with and exposure to same-sex relationships, beyond those described and decried during their heteronormative childhood, to help shape their views of marriage (Bernstein & Taylor, 2013; Harrison & Michelson, 2017). This requires a reimagining of what it means to solidify these relationships into lasting family-building foundations via the institution of marriage, reconciling the schema of marriage from their childhood with the new perspective offered by lived experience.…”

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“I Cannot Wait to Build that One Day”: Lesbian and Bisexual College-Age Women’s Views on Marriage and Family

Zacarias

Zeglin

Barringer

2021

Journal of Family Issues

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After the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality in 2015, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community has gained visibility. One cohort that is affected by this decision is lesbian and bisexual college-age women. The present study, through six face-to-face semi-structured interviews with self-identifying lesbian and bisexual college-age women, sought to understand how these women view marriage and family. Three themes emerged are: (a) Heteronormative socialization, (b) Personal endorsement of marriage, and (c) LGBT Parenting. The results of this study suggest that college-age women still carry the effects of growing up and entering adulthood in a largely heteronormative society, endorse marriage as an institution, and find profound personal meaning in the prospect of forming a family. Even in the face of protracted legal battles that are eventually won, the humanity of individual and personal motivation remains the most salient factor in forming bonds and building families.

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“I Cannot Wait to Build that One Day”: Lesbian and Bisexual College-Age Women’s Views on Marriage and Family

Zacarias

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Barringer

2021

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Strategy memos thus instructed activists to portray same-gender relationships as monogamous and exclusive, recommending the use of words like “longterm, lifelong, stable, permanent” to describe them (Freedom to Marry 2010; see also Harrison and Michelson 2017b). Groups argued that the most effective public appeals were those that “stressed the commonality of shared values across sexual orientations and that tapped the capacity of ordinary Americans to empathize with those who might seem different” (Frank 2017, 275).…”

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Respectability Politics and Straight Support for LGB Rights

Jones

2021

Political Research Quarterly

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Marginalized groups frequently adopt a respectability politics strategy, presenting themselves as adhering to dominant norms to gain public support. The LGBTQ movement, for example, has consciously portrayed same-gender relationships as exemplifying heteronormative values to win over straight Americans. But how effective is this strategy? Two survey experiments show that presenting LGB people as adhering to, or violating, norms of monogamy and exclusivity has null to minimal effects on straight respondents’ views of them or support for their rights. Furthermore, there is no evidence that the effects are moderated by (1) respondents’ political predispositions; or (2) the race, ethnicity, or gender of the LGB people being highlighted. Emphasizing the respectability of same-gender relationships is not as effective as the movement has assumed. More broadly, these results call into question the assumption that highlighting “respectable” members of marginalized groups is an effective way to change public opinion.

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“…Eyerman (2005: 43), for instance, maintains that activists engage in 'a form of acting in public' during demonstrations to provoke desired emotions among onlookers, suggesting that emotion work is at play during external mobilisations. LGBTQ activists have tried to elicit anger (Gould, 2009), collective effervescence (Taylor et al, 2009), and empathy (Harrison and Michelson, 2017) in the public for this purpose. Mobilisations in LGBTQ activism also involve emotion work mechanisms transforming one state of feeling to another: collective shock and grief into anger (Gould, 2009), shame into pride (Britt and Heise, 2000), and grief into love as advocacy (Broad, 2011).…”

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What happens on the backstage? Emotion work and LGBTQ activism in a collectivist culture

Mai

2022

Emotions and Society

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The tendency of scholars to conflate ‘social movement’ with ‘protest’ has resulted in a significant lack of studies addressing activists’ emotions in contexts other than public mobilisations. Filling this gap in research, this study moves the focus beyond the frontstage of social movements to investigate how activists, on the backstage, engage in emotion work to cope with the challenges of activism. The data come from in-depth interviews with 12 LGBTQ activists, from the author’s participant observation at an activist training programme organised by a Vietnamese NGO, and from the author’s field notes. The findings reveal a dissonance between the positivity portrayed by the activists on the frontstage and the vulnerability they experience on the backstage of activism, which translates into conscious efforts to manage emotions, whether through collective or individual techniques. Empirically, this article contributes to Southeast Asian LGBTQ activism scholarship, advancing the discussion on what the activist role entails beyond public mobilisations and how activists cope with this multifaceted nature of activism. Theoretically, this study contributes to the sociology of emotion, showing how the collectivist culture offers fertile ground to observe the relationality of emotions, thereby extending Hochschild’s theorisation of emotion work.

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What’s Love Got To Do With It?: Emotion, Rationality, and Framing LGBT Rights

Cited by 5 publications

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“I Cannot Wait to Build that One Day”: Lesbian and Bisexual College-Age Women’s Views on Marriage and Family

“I Cannot Wait to Build that One Day”: Lesbian and Bisexual College-Age Women’s Views on Marriage and Family

Respectability Politics and Straight Support for LGB Rights

What happens on the backstage? Emotion work and LGBTQ activism in a collectivist culture

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