Zein Murib Boeken

Focusing on the evolution of the LGBT community in the US, Zein Murib explores how identity-based social and political movements emerged through strategic "rightful citizenship claims." The book highlights how these claims prioritized the recognition of white, gender-normative, monogamously partnered individuals, often sidelining other community members. Murib argues that this within-group marginalization is a deliberate discursive strategy, not merely a byproduct of political expediency, aimed at gaining acceptance from lawmakers and society.

"In June 2015, an undocumented transgender activist named Jennicet Gutiérrez staged a protest during President Obama's opening of LGBT Pride festivities at the White House. The event convened many prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists and political leaders to celebrate what was expected to be a positive outcome in the Supreme Court case regarding the legal status of same-sex marriages. Gutiérrez seized the spotlight of that highly-publicized gathering and interrupted Obama's speech, in which he praised the progress made by the LGBT group in pursuit of civil rights, by loudly calling for the end of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy of housing detainees by sex. Her protests alternated between two messages: demanding the end of incarcerating migrants at the border and underscoring the stakes of this practice by highlighting the disproportionate incidences of transgender women sexually assaulted - and dying - while in ICE detention"-- Provided by publisher