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By Diane Helene Miller
Many folks have grown up with the language of civil rights, but hardly think of how the development of civil rights claims impacts those people who are attempting to reach them. Diane Miller examines arguments lesbians and homosexual males make for civil rights, revealing the methods those arguments are either progressive--in phrases of supporting to win complaints looking uncomplicated human rights--and limiting--in phrases of framing representations of homosexual males and lesbians.
Miller accommodates case experiences of lesbians within the army and in politics into her argument. She discusses intimately the reviews of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, who used to be dishonorably discharged from the nationwide protect after 27 years of carrier while she printed that she used to be a lesbian, and Roberta Achtenberg, who was once nominated via Clinton for the activity of Assistant Director of Housing and concrete improvement and have become the 1st homosexual or lesbian to stand the affirmation method. Drawing on those situations and their results, Miller evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of privileging civil rights ideas within the fight for homosexual and lesbian rights.
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Emphasizing physica l presenc e ca n b e a strateg y o f resistanc e w h e n larg e numbers o f peopl e visibl y suppor t a n oppositiona l cause . Group s ca n in fluence th e politica l proces s b y demonstratin g a voting blo c o r b y challeng ing oppressiv e institution s o r practices , i n way s rangin g fro m peacefu l demonstration t o outrigh t violence . Nevertheless, focusing o n physica l pres ence ca n als o be a technique o f th e oppressor . Dominant group s ma y exag gerate th e number s o f o r th e threa t pose d b y a marginalized group , in orde r to provok e fea r an d hatre d o f it s members .
I t includes , as well, the woma n wh o refuse s t o signa l he r possession b y a man i n eve n symboli c ways , as by choosin g no t t o wea r a wedding rin g or by keeping her ow n last name afte r marriage . CONSTRUCTIONS AN D DECONSTRUCTION S ^ 2 5 Prejudice agains t lesbian s i s grounded i n sexis m an d misogyny , as is prej udice agains t ga y m e n (Bunc h 1987 ; Kaye/Kantrowit z 1992 ; Koed t 1973 ; Pharr 1988) . T he mistrus t o f an y woma n w h o doe s no t nee d a ma n signal s a fea r o f women' s strengt h an d autonomy .
Such effect s ar e onl y in tensified fo r thos e whose histor y ha s been largel y hidde n no t onl y fro m out siders bu t eve n fro m themselves . T h e A m b i v a l e n c e o f t h e Close t T h e achievemen t o f voic e an d visibilit y i s crystallize d i n th e ac t o f comin g out, markin g th e shif t fro m confusio n o r hiddennes s t o awarenes s o r ac knowledgment, a move fro m privat e t o publi c identity . " C o m i ng out " has a dual meaning , referrin g bot h t o a n individual' s self-awarenes s o f bein g ga y or lesbia n an d t o th e decisio n t o shar e thi s informatio n wit h others .