The First Amendment and LGBT Equality: A Contentious History

by Carlos A. Ball

Conservative opponents of LGBT equality in the United States often couch their opposition in claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is no surprise, then, that many LGBT supporters equate First Amendment arguments with resistance to their cause. The First Amendment and LGBT Equality tells another story, about the First Amendment's crucial yet largely forgotten role in the first few decades of the gay rights movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674972198
• ISBN13: 9780674972193
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"