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- Title
Coalitional Fronting and Shared Ethos Cultivation in the Case of the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
- Authors
Miller, Joshua H.
- Abstract
This essay investigates a critical moment of advocacy in San Francisco's queer history: when police raided the Council on Religion and the Homosexual (CRH) New Year's Day fundraiser. In response, CRH engaged in what I term coalitional fronting. The coalition's privileged members acted as its public face, placing clergy, lawyers, and straight couples at center stage in its contestation with the police. Doing so allowed the group to cultivate privileged forms of ethos to rebuke police actions that would not have been possible if queer organizations acted alone. CRH's coalitional fronting provided cover to queer members and enabled the cultivation of queer community and political power via other anonymous means. By unpacking the group's advocacy efforts, this manuscript enriches rhetorical scholarship's understanding of the connections among inventional resources, privilege, allyship, and coalitional politics.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; HOMOSEXUALITY; CLERGY; LAWYERS; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2021, Vol 44, Issue 4, p542
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2021.1881005