The landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) rights has changed dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century. In the early 1960s, LGBT individuals were criminalized and maligned across the United States as mentally-ill habitual criminals. By 2015, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Obergefell guaranteed LGB people the right to state-sanctioned marriage. From the surface, that change could be seen as the result of a nationally-focused activism directed towards sweeping change, through winning the right to marriage in federal court. In her new monograph Family Matters, Marie-Amélie George argues this sea-change was in fact incremental and Read more