V. Jenness et K. Broad, ANTIVIOLENCE ACTIVISM AND THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF GENDER IN THE GAY LESBIAN AND WOMENS MOVEMENTS, Gender & society, 8(3), 1994, pp. 402-423
Gay and lesbian-sponsored antiviolence projects have used activist str
ategies and ''collective action frames'' similar to the contemporary w
omen's movement's antiviolence against women campaigns and have define
d violence against gays and lesbians as a social problem resulting fro
m criminal sexual assault that stems from institutionalized sexual ter
rorism. Unlike the contemporary feminist movement, which has been anch
ored in an all-encompassing critique of patriarchy, activism around an
tigay and lesbian violence has ignored patriarchy and the gender relat
ions that sustain and reflect it; instead, gay and lesbian activism ha
s been preoccupied with homophobia and only implicitly concerned with
institutionalized heterosexism. As a result, the fact that gays and le
sbians embody gender and are firmly situated in gender relations is re
ndered invisible. This analysis examines how the collective action fra
me(s) of one social movement can be appropriated, employed, and transf
ormed by a subsequent movement.