124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections

Gay Marriage and Proposition 8: Reflections

AHA Session 71
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 4

Friday, January 8, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Elizabeth Ballroom D (Hyatt)

Chair:

Karen C. Krahulik, Brown University

Sponsored by the AHA Working Group for Historical Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage, the AHA LGBTQ Historians Task Force

Topics:

Marriage Rights Were Human Rights: Gender, Marriage Equality, and Social Justice in the Framing of the Universal Declaration
Christopher Brick, Brown University

A More Perfect Union, 1975–2007
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania

Same-Sex Marriage and the Changing Face of Religious Politics in the United States
Heather White, The New College of Florida

Healthy (Heterosexual) Marriage Initiatives, Public Policy, and the Religious Right
Rebecca L. Davis, University of Delaware

Civil Rights up for Vote: Placing Proposition 8 in the History of California's Voter Referendums
Martin D. Meeker Jr., University of California, Berkeley

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