In her work, \u201cEquality, Inc.\u201d Lisa Duggan criticizes the recoding of key terms in the history of gay politics due to support and push for homonormativity\u2014politics that does not contest the dominant heteronormative standards and institutions, such as marriage. She criticizes the recoding of the terms such as \u201cequality\u201d, \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cright to privacy,\u201d stating, \u201c\u2018equality\u2019 becomes narrow, formal access to a few conservatizing institutions, \u2018freedom\u2019 becomes impunity for bigotry and vast inequalities in commercial life and civil society, the \u2018right to privacy\u2019 becomes domestic confinement, and the democratic politics itself become something to be escaped\u201d (Duggan 65-66).\u00a0 To make such a statement, Duggan draws on the example of \u201cGay Tunnel Vision\u201d as \u201cgay civil rights groups have adopted neoliberal rhetoric and corporate decision-making models\u201d (Duggan 47).\u00a0 Gay civil rights organization have become to push for gay marriage and support the \u201cincreasingly narrow gay, money elite\u201d (Duggan 47).<\/p>\n
A specific organization named by Duggan was the Human Rights Campaign. She also draws upon the words of Cato Institute vice president, David Boaz. Boaz argues that gay marriage is preferable to that of domestic partnership. As a gay libertarian, he does not oppose the institution and administration of marriage as one might imagine. \u00a0To construct the recoding of the term \u201cright to privacy\u201d to domestic confinement, Duggan draws on the actions of the Independent Gay Forum in spreading the word about their new gay politics that \u201coffers a dramatically shrunken public sphere and narrow zone of \u2018responsible\u2019 domestic privacy\u201d (Duggan 53).<\/p>\n
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Lisa Duggan, \u201cEquality, Inc.,\u201d in The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics,\u00a0and the Attack on Democracy.\u00a0<\/em>Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. pp. 43-66.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In her work, \u201cEquality, Inc.\u201d Lisa Duggan criticizes the recoding of key terms in the history of gay politics due to support and push for homonormativity\u2014politics that does not contest the dominant heteronormative standards and institutions, such as marriage. She criticizes the recoding of the terms such as \u201cequality\u201d, \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cright to privacy,\u201d stating, … <\/p>\n