Kent Centre for Gender Sexuality and the Law, Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality (BiGS) and the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London
Friday 1-5pm
Sat 9.30 - 6pm
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks. For beyond their practical implications, same-sex relationship recognition, throughout the western world, has become a key site of political contestation rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform process that commenced with the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Yet, at the same time, for others they represent a problematic and ambivalent political engagement with the institution of marriage. Consequently, understood and labelled as ‘revolutionary’, ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ these reforms provide a space for thinking about issues that arguably affect everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or relationship status.
This workshop brings together scholars and commentators from a range of professions and disciplinary backgrounds to critically reflect on the first ten years of the Civil Partnership Act and the introduction of same-sex marriage. The speakers have different views about these reforms – some are in favour, others more ambivalent. But rather than simply rehearsing the well documented arguments ‘for’ and ‘against’ relationship recognition, the papers collectively ask a different set of original questions and draw on a variety of methods.
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