Perspective
Dec. 28, 2010
A Two-Pronged Strategy Is Key for Protecting Gay Rights
The campaign for gay rights requires a hybrid political and legal approach. By Ari Waldman of California Western School of Law.
The repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) was a sweet and satisfying conclusion to an otherwise frustrating two years of gay politics, or the fight for gay equality in the legislative realm. Since the 1950s, the locus of the fight for gay equality at the federal level has been the judiciary, or what I am calling gay law. Battles were lost, battles were won, and the fight in the courts continued to the point where gay law was...
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