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Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in Lgbt Activist Organizations

by Jane Ward
Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in Lgbt Activist Organizations

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ISBN10: 0826516068



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For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site organization; and Bienestar, an HIV services organization for gay Latinos. Ward documents the evolution of these organizations, including class and race conflicts within them, but she especially focuses on the misuses of diversity culture.

Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the daily life of a progressive movement and producing frequent conflicts over the meaning of "diversity." The author shows how queer activists are learning from the corporate model to leverage their differences to compete with other non-profit groups, enhance their public reputation or moral standing, and establish their diversity-related expertise. Ward argues that this instrumentalization of diversity has increased the demand for predictable and easily measurable forms of difference, a trend at odds with queer resistance.

Ward traces the standoff between the respectable world of "diversity awareness" and the often vulgar, sexualized, and historically unprofessional world of queer pride festivals. She spotlights dissenting voices in a queer organization where diversity has become synonymous with tedious and superficial workplace training. And she shows how activists fight back when prevailing diversity discourses-the ones that "diverse" people are compelled to use in order to receive funding-simply don't fit.

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This is an important book. Ward shows how managing diversity in the LGBT non-profit sector mirrors the corporate sector's management of diversity: representing identity differences has become instrumental, not an ethic or end in itself. Her nuanced and complex case studies demonstrate how difference is contained and domesticated, and provide empirical grounding for the larger theoretical claims about the effects of neo-liberal apolitical discourses of diversity, the current funder-directed state of the LGBT social movement, and the importance of documenting ways to resist corporate diversity-speak.

--Paisley Currah, Director, Transgender Law and Policy Institute, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY

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This study will be immensely helpful to both scholars and activists who want to learn about the shaping of LGBT issues by the nonprofit industrial complex.

--Gender and Society

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Through an in-depth ethnographic investigation of queer politics in Los Angeles, Respectably Queer reveals how neoliberal ideas about difference are becoming embedded in the daily life of a progressive movement and producing frequent conflicts over the meaning of "diversity." Jane Ward documents a new wave of activist challenges to the cooptation of diversity, including the emergence of promising efforts to remake diversity into a queer and more substantive form of resistance.

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Jane Ward is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at UC Riverside.

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ISBN:
9780826516060
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/15/2008
Publisher:
Vanderbilt University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
178
Height:
.80IN
Width:
6.10IN
LCCN:
2008017951
Number of Units:
1
Author:
Jane Ward
Subject:
Gay and Lesbian-General
Subject:
LGBT Studies, Social Movements / Non-Profit Organizations
Subject:
Sexual minorities - United States
Subject:
Social movements
Subject:
Gay liberation movement
Subject:
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transsexual Studies
Subject:
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transsexual Studies; Social Movements
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Studies
Subject:
Gay liberation movement -- United States.

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