Beyond Gay Marriage
Lisa Dettmer is a producer of the Women’s Magazine radio program at KPFA in Berkeley, California. This article is based on a radio documentary produced by Lisa Dettmer and Elena Botkin-Levy. Listen to the full length documentary using the player at the top of the page or by downloading the mp3. Lisa Dettmer asks a simple question: should same-sex marriage be the focus of the gay community? Dettmer asks this question in , and fourteen years later it remains highly relevant. 
Beyond Gay Marriage by Lisa Dettmer
Special thanks to freelance producer Lisa Dettmer who produced this documentary, Beyond Gay Marriage, and to co-producer Elena Botkin-Levy. For a CD copy of this program, called the National Radio Project at To browse Academia. This paper considers perspectives on marriage in the Queer and feminist community reviewing key contemporary thinkers on the subject and using direct interviews and material from radical Queer activists and academics in the field.
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This documentary does exactly that, and in doing so offers a window into underrepresented issues in the LGBTQ civil rights movement and a mirror for those who rarely see themselves or their viewpoints given space on the radio. Beyond Gay Marriage was hosted and produced by Lisa Dettmer and co-produced bt Elena Botkin-Levy. Editors note: The June 26, Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 States shifts the terms of the debate about where the gay rights movement should be putting organizing energy and money. This article and podcast by Lisa Dettmer looks beyond the issue of gay marriage and examines how homophobia intersects with racism and classism and suggest new directions for gay rights rooted in the history of queer liberation politics. 
Beyond Gay Marriage
Beyond Gay Marriage was hosted and produced by Lisa Dettmer and co-produced bt Elena Botkin-Levy. Financial support was provided by Astraea Foundation and Making Contact at the National Radio Project. This Pride, we're proud to present a pointed and spicy documentary about fractures in the LGBTQ movement over the fight for gay marriage. This piece offers a nuanced and passionate analysis of something you rarely see put forward for public consumption: internal debate within a civil rights movement.
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The "Beyond Gay Marriage" radio documentary has an inspiring dialogue on the topics relating to homosexual marriage and the interests of the same sex in general. . Beyond Gay Marriage
Editors note: The June 26, Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 States shifts the terms of the debate about where the gay rights movement should be putting organizing energy and money. This article and podcast by Lisa Dettmer looks beyond the issue of gay marriage and examines how homophobia intersects with racism and classism and suggest new directions for. . 
Beyond Gay Marriage by Lisa Dettmer
Over the last five years, same-sex marriage has been a predominant issue in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Fights for same-sex marriage rights have succeeded in a few states, leading some to believe that the gay community is winning its battle for acceptance. But many in the LGBT movements for social justice question whether gay marriage is really the most. .