{"id":40390,"date":"2014-06-17T09:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40390"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:15:22","slug":"suzanna-walters-discusses-the-tolerance-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/06\/17\/suzanna-walters-discusses-the-tolerance-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanna Walters Discusses The Tolerance Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/suzanna_walters_interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In her ground breaking book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Are Sabotaging Gay Equality, Suzanna Walters demands liberation over acceptance and warns against declaring victory for gay rights too soon. Analyzing pop culture&#8217;s depictions of gay characters, the marriage equality movement, scientific research into homosexuality, and religious approaches, she makes the case that nothing less than full equality and a societal transformation is worth fighting for. <\/p>\n<p>Walters is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Her earlier book is called All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America. In this interview with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar, she discusses her latest book, The Tolerance Trap. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E-Em3LP3DYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/suzanna_walters_interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In her ground breaking book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions Are Sabotaging Gay Equality, Suzanna Walters demands liberation over acceptance and warns against declaring victory for gay rights too soon. Analyzing pop culture&#8217;s depictions of gay characters, the marriage equality movement, scientific research into homosexuality, and religious approaches, she makes the case that nothing less than full equality and a societal transformation is worth fighting for. <\/p>\n<p>Walters is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Women\u2019s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Her earlier book is called All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America. In this interview with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar, she discusses her latest book, The Tolerance Trap. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NwsMA1Ua0Rw\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/NwsMA1Ua0Rw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40399,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390\/revisions\/40399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}