Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality

Michael W. Yarbrough is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose work explores the intersection of law, culture, and family. He is Assistant Professor of Law and Society in the Political Science Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), and Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.Angela Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Farmingdale State College, SUNY. Her research interests include African American political thought and protest, gender, and sexuality. Jones is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals.Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis is the founder and former Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice, and worked as an activist for over two decades. He is currently Assistant Professor of Social Work at Seattle University, USA, and has written about queer social movements, poverty, and marriage politics.

• Introduction: For Better or for Worse? Relational Landscapes in the Time of Same-Sex Marriage Part I: The Material Impacts of Same-Sex Marriage Chapter 1: Living Lesbian Relationships in Madrid: Queering Life and Families in Times of Straight Living Fossils Chapter 2: For the Richer, not the Poorer: Marriage Equality, Financial Security, and the Promise of Queer Economic Justice Chapter 3: “What Makes Our Conflicts Queer?” An Interview with Rachel Epstein Part II: Is Marriage Normalizing LGBTQ Relationships? Chapter 4: From Public Debate to Private Decision: The Normalization of Marriage among Critical LGBQ People Chapter 5: Reflections on Marriage Equality as a Vehicle for LGBTQ Political Transformation Chapter 6: Simultaneous Assimilation and Innovation in the Construction of Queer Families: Married Same-Sex Couples in Cape Town, South Africa Chapter 7: From Homonormativity to Polynormativity: Representing Consensual Non-Monogamy Part III: The Present and Future of Relational Diversity Chapter 8: The Beyond Same-Sex Marriage Statement Ten Years Later Chapter 9: Making Connections: An Interview with Ignacio G. Rivera Chapter 10: Beyond the Sex-Love-Marriage Alignment: Xinghun among Queer People in Mainland China Chapter 11: "Zoning is a Way of Sorting People": An Interview with the Scarborough Family Chapter 12: Queer Street Families: Place-Making and Community Among LGBT Youth of Color in Iconic Gay Neighborhoods Chapter 13: Future Fronts in the Fight for Family Diversity: A Panel Discussion

"Probing a landscape of emergent social relations in the wake of same-sex marriage, this indispensable collection brims with critical insight. If marriage continues to exert disproportionate authority over our social imaginations, then queer family and kinship after marriage equality raise urgent questions regarding new configurations of inequality within diversity. Expanding definitions of queer family and kinship do not automatically translate into parables of progress and reason."David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, Graduate Chair, University of Pennsylvania, USA"Wide-ranging, international, intersectional, and critically queer, Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality brings together diverse perspectives on the normalizations, intimacies, and material changes generated by the spread of same-sex marriage. A useful contribution to the study of sexual politics, relationships, and kinship."Joshua Gamson, author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship, Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco, USA