Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA.
J Homosex. 2024 Jan 28;71(2):362-380. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2116303. Epub 2022 Aug 31.
What's on the gay (legal) agenda? This study addresses this question by examining the press releases of national LGBT legal advocacy organizations in response to both new opportunities, after decisions such as (2013) and (2015), and significant challenges such as the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and his subsequent conservative judicial appointments. Using original data from more than 2,800 press releases filed by the largest LGBT legal advocacy organizations from 2010 to 2019, we analyze the LGBT legal agenda and explore how it evolved throughout this period in reaction to changes in the legal opportunity structure. We find that LGBT legal advocacy organizations are strategic and adapt their agendas to shifts in their legal opportunities to achieve social movement goals. Specifically, we find that after marriage equality was achieved, significant shifts in the legal opportunity structure, including conservative countermobilization and new cultural and legal frames, placed transgender rights at the top of the LGBT legal agenda. These findings shed light on the politics of LGBT legal advocacy organizations, provide insight into LGBT politics after , and contribute to our understanding of how legal advocacy organizations respond to changing legal opportunities in social movements.
同性恋（法律）议程上有哪些内容？本研究通过考察全国性 LGBT 法律倡导组织在 2013 年和 2015 年等决定之后出现的新机遇，以及唐纳德·特朗普在 2016 年当选和随后保守派司法任命等重大挑战下发布的新闻稿，回答了这个问题。我们使用了 2010 年至 2019 年期间最大的 LGBT 法律倡导组织提交的超过 2800 份新闻稿的原始数据，分析了 LGBT 法律议程，并探讨了它如何在这一时期随着法律机会结构的变化而演变。我们发现，LGBT 法律倡导组织具有策略性，会根据法律机会的变化调整其议程，以实现社会运动目标。具体来说，我们发现，在实现了同性婚姻平等之后，法律机会结构的重大变化，包括保守派的反击和新的文化和法律框架，将跨性别权利置于 LGBT 法律议程的首位。这些发现揭示了 LGBT 法律倡导组织的政治策略，深入了解了 2015 年之后的 LGBT 政治，并有助于我们理解法律倡导组织如何在社会运动中应对不断变化的法律机会。
