Experiencing Same-Sex Marriage: Individuals, Couples, And Social Networks

This book provides an understanding of how the legal and cultural debates and advances and limitations on same-sex marriage are experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people, same-sex couples, and their social networks. Using data collected from hundreds of GLBT people, same-sex couples, and their social networks over the past decade, the book examines the following topics: same-sex marriages' impact on how GLBT individuals view their relationships and community; same-sex couples' decision making regarding whether to marry or not; the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their families-of-origin regarding same-sex marriage; the same-sex marriage experiences of understudied members of the GLBT community; and the interactions between same-sex couples and members of their social networks in locations with restrictions against legally recognized same-sex marriage. These findings are examined through the lens of the social scientific study of relationships. They are based on a communication studies perspective on personal relationships, and therefore emphasize communication concepts and theories relevant to the understanding of same-sex marriage experiences.

• • Author: Pamela J. Lannutti
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Jan 20, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 130 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1433121026
• • ISBN-13: 9781433121029