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Better Not Put a Ring on It

by Suzanna Danuta Walters | November 16, 2013 | Fall 2013

Same-sex marriage is all the rage these days and supporting it is a civil-rights no brainer. But sociologist Suzanna Danuta Walters warns us that we should never imagine that gaining this signals the end of homophobia or the beginning of deep social belonging.

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Suzanna Danuta Walters is the director of women’s, gender, and sexuality stud- ies at Northeastern University. She is the author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America and the forthcoming The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality.

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