CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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MARRIAGE EQUALITY: WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Call for Submissions
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LGBTQ+ people have now had marriage equality for ten years. Some conservatives have mounted legal challenges, but for the moment, the right to marry still stands.
With a decade of hindsight, what have we learned? What have the tangible gains been? What are the trade-offs? How has divorce affected the process of ending queer relationships? What are the biggest threats to marriage equality, and what happens if its opponents succeed in overturning Obergefell? Was marriage the goal we should have pursued? Or, in the haste for equality, did we overlook other alternative family structures?
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Essays of up to 5,000 words addressing these or any other issues related to marriage equality are invited. Submissions may take the form of personal experience and reflections, or they may be academic in nature, looking at legal, historical, sociological or anthropological concerns.​​
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Submission Guidelines
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Submissions are open to anyone with a personal or academic interest in the topic of marriage equality. Submissions must be the original work of the author (no AI submissions will be accepted). If the work has been previously published, you must be able to demonstrate that you have the rights to reprint the work. Essays that are academic in nature should be documented in Chicago style.
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Submissions must be in Microsoft Word and sent as an email attachment to claytondelery@gmail.com. Please limit submissions to 5,000 words.
McFarland Publishing will be the likely publisher as part of its Queer Life in America series. Contributors will receive one free copy upon publication.
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Submissions must be received by May 31, 2026.
About the Editor
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Clayton Delery is the author of The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, which was named Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, and Out For Queer Blood, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Nonfiction. He is also the General Editor of McFarland’s new Queer Life in America series.