LGBTQ+ Resources: Campus Resources

Chapters: Dignity's disciplining power : the politics of public health from AIDS to PREP. Fucking with dignity : bathhouse closures and the state's degradation of queer kinship during the early AIDS crisis -- Do you swallow? Possibilities for queer transgression in new contexts -- Promoting sameness or embracing difference : distinct visions of dignity in popular culture. Isn't straight still the default? The politics of restraint in Love, Simon -- Doing the most : Pose and the value of queer excess -- Respect versus respectability : the Court's definitions of dignity. Liberal rulings for conservative ends : manipulating dignity from decriminalization to marriage equality -- Is dignity a dead end? Alternative notions of dignity and the promise of our anti-racist Constitution -- Conclusion: Doing dignity differently : an anti-stigma approach.

"Rivera calls to mind Jesus's woe to religious leaders: "They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them" (Matt. 23:4). Heavy Burdens provides an honest account of seven ways LGBTQ people experience discrimination in the church, helping Christians grapple with hard realities and empowering churches across the theological spectrum to navigate better paths forward