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vii Acknowledgments this book rEPrEsEnts a professional, political, and personal achievement for the three of us who co-edited it. The three of us have devoted our professional lives to studying various dimensions of social movements. Over the course of our careers, we’ve been lucky enough to participate in networks of scholars who share our interests. Through those networks, we met the contributors to this volume, some of whose work we have admired for years, some of whom are new scholars who promise to make a lasting contribution to our respective fields. We are grateful to all of them. In addition, this volume would not have been possible without the inspiration and guidance of our friends and colleagues, including David Greenberg, Michael McCann, Gerald Rosenberg, Lynn Jones, Sandra Levitsky, Steven Boutcher, Richard McAdams, and Nancy Naples. We would also like to thank the Research Foundation of the University of Connecticut for awarding us a small faculty grant to support the production of this book. Finally, we would like to thank Ilene Kalish at New York University Press for her enthusiastic support of this project from the outset. We would also like to thank Aiden Amos of NYU Press for her assistance through the publication process. The volume also speaks to the intersection between the personal and the political for all three of us. The following acknowledgements reflect our personal thanks. To those select social scientists of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s who toiled for many years to bring complex intellectual approaches and accurate data to the study of lesbian and gay rights. They often did these tasks amidst the veiled scorn of their academic counterparts in the larger discipline. The currently strong state of this field, as reflected in the extensive breadth of the ideas and research found in this edited volume, reflects their willingness to lay the necessary groundwork during difficult times. —Scott Barclay I would like to thank my life partner, Nancy Naples, for her consistent support through good times and bad. I would like to dedicate this book to my daughters, Alexandra and Samantha. I recently took them to the rally after the Connecticut Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. I didn’t want to introduce the idea viii Acknowledgments of homophobia into their four-year-old worlds, so I simply told them that we were going to a rally to celebrate families with two mommies or two daddies. I hope that my girls can grow up in a world where the legal and social disabilities associated with their moms’ sexual orientation and relationship are quickly being relegated to the dustbin of history. I would also like to thank all of the activists who are working to make this transformation a reality. —Mary Bernstein My grandfather was a leader in the effort to unionize coal mines in northeastern Pennsylvania; my parents met at a union meeting; my sister went campaigning for Bobby Kennedy in 1968. I grew up in a household that was deeply concerned about social justice. I was lucky enough to find the political science department at Northwestern University, where they taught me the things I needed to know to study all the issues that have preoccupied me since childhood, and my friends and colleagues in the Law and Society Association have sustained those interests. —Anna-Maria Marshall ...