Hooper Schultz on Marie-Amélie George’s *Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition* | Society for US Intellectual History
The landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) rights has changed dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century. In the early 1960s, LGBT individuals were criminalized and maligned across the United States as mentally-ill habitual criminals. By 2015, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Obergefell guaranteed LGB people the right to state-sanctioned
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