Inside Higher Ed: Politics, Equity and Meeting Boycotts
To those who favor gay marriage rights, the site of the American Political Science Association’s meeting this year couldn’t have been better. The association is meeting this week in Boston, where gay marriage is permitted.
But for many gay academics, the association’s plan to hold its 2012 meeting in New Orleans couldn’t be worse. That’s because Louisiana has passed one of the most restrictive bans on gay marriage in the country — a measure that prohibits not only gay marriage, but recognition of any equivalent relationship. As a result, gay academics say that in event of illness or accident in New Orleans, their partners could be denied access to them in hospitals. And that means some gay academics will skip the meeting.
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