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Mertus, Julie. "Human Rights Framings and The Movement for LGBT Rights in the U.S." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152808_index.html>

Mertus, J. , 2006-08-31 "Human Rights Framings and The Movement for LGBT Rights in the U.S." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152808_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: This paper considers the extent to which activists for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights (�LBGT advocates�) in the United States have begun to frame their concerns in terms of international human rights. The discussion is organized in three main parts. First, it begins with a description of the growing LGBT engagement with the international human rights movement. The dominant organizing strategy in this case has been one of assimilation and, as this section shows, efforts to gain entry into existing political and legal international human rights structures have met considerable success. The second part of the paper examines why many LGBT activists fail to tap into human rights more at the domestic level. Given that the domestic politics are overwhelmingly more informed by an assimilation approach which is most compatible with human rights claims, one would expect that human rights framings would play a key role in domestic LGBT politics today. Yet this is decidedly not the case. The paper concludes by puzzling why this might be so. One possible explanation for the failure of human rights-based claims to fully permeate domestic advocacy, explored in this paper, rests with the process by which human rights claims are usually advanced. The attempt to frame LBGT concerns in human rights terms has largely centered on sexual identity categories, without reflecting the self-critique of identity within LGBT communities that reveals LGBT categories as socially constructed and contested. Moreover, to the extent LGBT movements have engaged in rights-based framings, their activities have only permitted LGBT concerns to be expressed within and through the themes and priorities already set by human rights gatekeepers. This might be acceptable for those who seek entry to and acceptance in the existing political and economic order. But participation in the status quo can only go so far for those who seek a radical transformation of social constructions of sexuality and gender, and of patterns of oppression in general.

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