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ANTIVIOLENCE ACTIVISM AND THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF GENDER IN THE GAY/LESBIAN AND WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS

Washington State University

KENDAL BROAD

Washington State University

Gay and lesbian-sponsored antiviolence projects have used activist strategies and "collective action frames" similar to the contemporary women's movement's antiviolence against women campaigns and have defined violence against gays and lesbians as a social problem resulting from criminal sexual assault that stems from institutionalized sexual terrorism. Unlike the contemporary feminist movement, which has been anchored in an all-encompassing critique of patriarchy, activism around antigay and lesbian violence has ignored patriarchy and the gender relations that sustain and reflect it; instead, gay and lesbian activism has been preoccupied with homophobia and only implicitly concerned with institutionalized heterosexism. As a result, the fact that gays and lesbians embody gender and are firmly situated in gender relations is rendered invisible. This analysis examines how the collective action frame(s) of one social movement can be appropriated, employed, and transformed by a subsequent movement.

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