What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it is that rights do not exist in a vacuum. The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate No Place Like Home was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LBGTQ Nonfiction, winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, and A Kansas Notable Book The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically naïve Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one of the country’s most hostile states. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansasįar from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states.
The University Press of Kansas is proud to help celebrate Pride Month with a curated list of books studying the legal battle for gay rights…
