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Sex and the citizen
An interview with the author
of a controversial new book
by
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Sexual Strangers:
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softcover) asks us to face the
question o f whether we real
ly can he considered citizens
o f the
U n ited
States,
a
country that excludes us
from fundamental markers
o f citizenship such as mar
riage and military service.
W ith
laserlike clarity and
honesty, the kxtk provokes
us to peel hack the denial
and internalized hom opho
bia that keep us in a perma
nent second-class citizen
status in our own nation.
U n til recently, Phelan
was a political science pro
fessor
and
the
w o m en ’s
studies director at U n iv e r
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male
citizens
the Episcopalian convent, and we
were
talked sex and citizenship.
to be married—
required
but because we
Tim M iller: O K , if you read
the newspapers you quickly see
the United States is bringing up
the rear among Western nations
regarding lesbian and gay civil
rights: the only Western nation
to have sodomy laws, the only
Western nation to deny gay
people the right to serve in
the military and so on. D o you
think gay people can be considered citizens
under such conditions?
Shane Phelan: N o , 1 d on ’t. M any people
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“ private.”
But
cases such as bina
tional
partners,
where
citizenship
may be granted to
some
by
marriage
but not granted to
others,
make
clear
how closely entwined
citizenship and mar
riage are.
upon their outlawing bigamy. T h e rhetoric of
a number o f elements. It has been a status that
the com m ittees and testimony before Congress
both confers privileges and entails responsibilities.
could have com e right out o f the 1990s.
These privileges have included voting and
W e are excluded from citizenship not only
holding office, hut they have also included the
by the bans on marriage and military service,
right to own property, to work and free public edu
however, hut also by the routine denial o f
cation and (in Western Europe and Canada]
decent health care and housing. T h e responsibili
p olice protection
and concern for violen ce
against us. If the fundamental promise o f c iti
ties of citizenship have included voting, serving on
zenship is acknow ledgm ent o f one another and
juries and military service. As women have found,
com m on concern for one another’s physical
being excluded from certain responsibilities that
safety, then I would say that lesbians and gays
are seen as central to citizenship is as much a
arc not yet citizens o f the U n ited States. T h e y
denial o f membership as exclusion from privileges.
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T M : What are some o f the other systems of
rights and responsibilities lesbians and gay men
are excluded from in this way?
SP: Marriage is an interesting issue for citizen
ship, not because it is new to the definition o f cit-
those laws are not actually enforced they are
not afforded the protection due to citizens.
T M : But does that really make gay people
noncitizens or rather lesser citizens?