This course investigates topics in contemporary queer life, including same-sex marriage, gay and queer radicalism and the fight for sexual liberation, the growth of assimilatory politics and its consequences, homonationalism and pink-washing, homophobia and bullying, the role of religion, and the globalization of LGBT human rights rhetoric and politics.

Antirequisite(s): Women's Studies 3345F/G if taught in Winter 2010, Fall 2011, or Fall 2014.

Prerequisite(s): Women's Studies 2273E or Women's Studies 2220E or permission of the department.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.