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A Defense of Marriage Act: Notes on the Social Performance of Queer Ambivalence
Malik Gaines
Tradition! Tradition! Tradition!
—“Tradition , ” Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
On television, people marvel at the change. Marriage, that privileged heterosexual union, that millennia-long social institution said to be sanctified by the Christian God and his analogues, now seems to be going the way of other revered cultural traditions like slavery and human sacrifice; its terms are no longer so clearly defined. In the spring of 2013, eleven full-fledged nation-states permit…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2013
Category
LGBTQ+, Performance
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Biography, Law & Justice