Author's Keywords: Culture, Cultural Opportunities, Social Movements, Christian Right, Anti-Gay, Gay, Mobilization	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Dugan, Kimberly. "Culture and Opportunities in Christian Right Anti-Gay Mobilization" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108054_index.html>

Dugan, K. B. , 2003-08-16 "Culture and Opportunities in Christian Right Anti-Gay Mobilization" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108054_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Scholarly interest in opportunities for movement emergence and mobilization has tended to be limited to the realm of the political. However, more recent attention has turned to the unique role of culture in creating opportunities. This newer attention to culture has remained largely theoretical. Empirical evidence clarifying the distinctions between political and cultural opportunities is warranted. In this paper, I begin the task of unpacking the cultural from the political. Data for this study are qualitative and come from the case of Cincinnati�s anti-gay ballot initiative. In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian and bisexual persons� legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to the inclusion of �sexual orientation� in the City�s newly enacted Human Rights Ordinance just one year earlier. The Christian right did not operate in isolation in their struggle to pass Issue 3. Rather, the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement engaged with the right in efforts to thwart the initiative. In this study I begin to separate the cultural opportunities present for the Christian right as they conflicted with the gay, lesbian, and bisexual movement over this initiative. Results show that movements are presented with cultural opportunities when they interpret-- events, especially suddenly imposed grievances, as contradictory to their core belief. Opportunities are also created when opponent movements are viewed as somehow weakened.

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