TY - JOUR TI - Beyond marriage DO - https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T38K7D1H PY - 2017 AB - Public and political discourse around the rights of LGBTQ people have increased over the past several decades. The focus on rights and equality have primarily focused on achieving marriage equality (typically referred to as ‘gay marriage’). The existence of marriage equality laws within a country is then typically used to judge whether LGBTQ people have achieved equality or not. The focus on marriage equality is not only misleading but also extremely problematic. Marriage equality laws are extremely limited in the actual rights they provide LGBTQ people, and are often exclusionary of many different intersecting identities. Further, the existence of marriage equality laws do not guarantee the elimination of the discrimination and violence that LGBTQ people face both within the United States and globally. This paper looks to critically analyze the gaps within marriage equality frameworks both within the United States and within international institutions, and challenge the problematic notion of the achievement of equality through the existence and representation of marriage equality laws. KW - Global Affairs KW - Same-sex marriage LA - eng ER -