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On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians Politics »

Authors: David Morton Rayside, Morton David Rayside
ISBN-13: 9780801433214, ISBN-10: 0801433215
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Illustrations
	Tables
	Preface
	Introduction: Activist Influence and Political Context	1
	Britain
1	Promoting Heterosexuality in the Thatcher Years	19
2	Activist Openings on the Age of Consent	45
3	The Parliamentary Ascent of Chris Smith	77
	Canada
4	The Canadian Human Rights Act and Liberal Party Pragmatism	105
5	The Fight for Relationship Recognition in Ontario	141
6	The Activist Roles of Svend Robinson	179
	United States
7	The Military Ban and the Perils of Congressional Politics	215
8	Barney Frank and the Art of the Possible	249
9	The Inescapable Allure of the American Mainstream	281
	Notes	315
	Index	349