Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Rightful citizenship claims and the construction of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans political identity
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| ISBN: | 9780197671504
0197671500
9780197671498
0197671497
9780197671528
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | "In June 2015, an undocumented transgender activist named Jennicet Gutiérrez staged a protest during President Obama's opening of LGBT Pride festivities at the White House. The event convened many prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists and political leaders to celebrate what was expected to be a positive outcome in the Supreme Court case regarding the legal status of same-sex marriages. Gutiérrez seized the spotlight of that highly-publicized gathering and interrupted Obama's speech, in which he praised the progress made by the LGBT group in pursuit of civil rights, by loudly calling for the end of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy of housing detainees by sex. Her protests alternated between two messages: demanding the end of incarcerating migrants at the border and underscoring the stakes of this practice by highlighting the disproportionate incidences of transgender women sexually assaulted - and dying - while in ICE detention"--
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| Other form: | Online version: Murib, Zein. Terms of exclusion New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023 9780197671528
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