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The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom

Edited by Senthorun Raj, Edited by Peter Dunne

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This book contributes to current debates about â€œqueer outsidesâ€ and â€œqueer outsidersâ€ that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as â€œoutlawsâ€ â€“ through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing â€“ to respectable â€œin lawsâ€ â€“ through the emerging acceptance of same-sex families and self-identified genders. From the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to the provision of a bureaucratic mechanism to amend legal sex in the Gender Recognition Act 2004, bringing LGBTIQ people â€œinsideâ€ the law has prompted enormous activist and academic commentary on the desirability of inclusion-focused legal and social reforms. Canvassing an array of current socio-legal debates on colonialism, refugee law, legal gender recognition, intersex autonomy and transgender equality, thecontributing authors explore â€œqueer outsidersâ€ who remain beyond the lawâ€™s reach and outline the ways in which these outsiders might seek to â€œcome withinâ€ and/or â€œstay outsideâ€ law. Given its scope, this modern work will appeal to legal scholars, lawyers, and activists with an interest in gender, sex, sexuality, race, migration and human rights law.Â Â