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- Title
THE MONOGAMOUS TEMPORALITIES OF MARRIAGE LAW: EXPLAINING BISEXUAL ERASURE IN AUSTRALIAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DEBATES.
- Authors
STANFORD, DYLAN
- Abstract
In December 2017 Australia legalised same-sex marriage. Although bisexuals were ostensibly included in the debates around same-sex marriage, substantive discussion of bisexuals and bisexuality was absent. This article asks why bisexuality was missing from the debates, despite being a key constituency that stood to benefit from its introduction. It focuses on two moments in the quest to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia: the parliamentary debates relating to the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 (Cth) and two parliamentary inquiries into same-sex marriage. This article finds that moments of bisexual erasure coincided with expressions of the monogamous and temporal investments of marriage law, including the belief that marriage should be a lifelong and exclusive union. This article argues that the monogamous temporalities of marriage are at least partly responsible for the erasure of bisexuality from same-sex marriage discourses, and that this is harmful for bisexual people.
- Subjects
MARRIAGE law; BISEXUAL erasure; SAME-sex marriage; BISEXUALITY; SEXUAL orientation
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2022, Vol 45, Issue 4, p1388
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53637/owhx2980