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LGBTQ Rights Are More Precarious Than Ever
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Ten years ago this week, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right to same-sex marriage in its landmark ruling, Obergefell v. Hodges. Since then, marriage equality and LGBTQ rights have been increasingly under threat. Conservative activists are successfully weaponizing trans rights issues as a wedge to undermine LGBTQ progress more broadly.

In this episode, University of Oregon political science professor Alison Gash, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on marriage equality, describes the nature of the conservative assault on LGBTQ Americans and how to fight back. She also discusses how the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has opened the door to walking back protections for same-sex marriage.

Cohosts: Anne Kim and Garrett Epps.

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Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and...

Garrett Epps is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly. Garrett is on Bluesky @garrettepps.bsky.social‬.