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This article extends the cultural-pragmatics model of symbolic action developed by Jeffrey Alexander and his associates, which observes that symbolic action has become difficult in contemporary, highly differentiated societies. When symbolic action succeeds, the cultural-pragmatics approach argues it does so by re-"fusing" the elements of social performance, which have been disaggregated by the effects of social differentiation. Fusion produces affectively charged shared interpretations with the power to reshape the social world in important ways. Drawing on an example from my own ethnographic research, I argue that the current articulation of cultural pragmatics is unable to apprehend instances when such affectively charged shared interpretations are produced even when the actor or actors in a performance fail to achieve their performative goals. In this article I introduce the concept of "meta-performance" as a tool for analyzing such instances, arguing that this enables us to consider interpretive vantage points that are not conditioned by the actor's intent. I then apply my extended meta-performative model to the ethnographic episode that inspired it. This bitterly fought court case between an adult daughter and her family produced a shared feeling among those assembled of hopeless deadlock between the family members, drawing a series of sharp symbolic boundaries – inter alia, between the daughter and her family and between "love" and "money" – not only despite, but precisely because all the participants' component performances failed.

Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Note -- Introduction -- Theoretical framing of the book -- Intersectionality -- Resilience and positive marginality -- Overview of the book -- Note -- References -- 1 What is "the queer agenda?" -- 2 Anti-Blackness and "the queer agenda" -- Note -- 3 Systemic violence -- Notes -- 4 Queering the trade -- What we mean when we say 'sex work' -- Why is sex work an LGBTQ issue? -- Criminalization -- Economic justice and labor -- Sex work as sex -- Moving forward -- Notes -- References -- 5 The tacit targeting of trans immigrants as "criminal aliens" -- Introduction -- Creation of the "criminal alien" -- Present: expansion of the criminal alien -- Tactics of resistance -- Fighting the Muslim ban: the limits of litigation -- Ordinary people's contributions-the perils and promise of upstanders -- Building meaningful sanctuary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Passing as experts in transgender medicine -- Passing as experts -- Passing as certain -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Who are the Stewards of the AIDS Archive? -- Part 1 -- Spelling it out: gay marriage and what gets lost -- Part 2 -- Nothing new: AIDS films and the struggle for diversity -- Film suggestions -- Resources for teaching AIDS video through a critical lens -- Examples of Trump era activist media that references AIDS activism -- References -- 8 LGBTQ youth and education -- Contemporary school climates for LGBTQ youth -- Contested frontiers for LGBTQ youth -- From rights to recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 "I want to be happy in life" -- The project -- Failure and family rejection -- Failure and homelessness -- The trouble with happiness -- Addressing LGBTQ youth homelessness -- References -- 10 The Anti-Man Aesthetic -- The Anti-Man Aesthetic in Guyana

Examining the mainstream lgbt movement -- LGBTQ politics after marriage : a panel discussion with Gabriel Foster, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Robyn Ochs, Steven Thrasher, Urvashi Vaid, and Hari Ziyad -- Ga(y)tekeeping identity, citizenship & claims to justice : freedom to serve, "freedom to marry", and the U.S. thirst for good gay subjects / by Chriss V. Sneed -- What's love got to do with it : queer politics and the "love pivot" / by Myrl Beam -- New social movements -- A new queer liberation movement : the targets of influence, mobilization, and benefits of a new social movement / by Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis -- "This is the freedom ride we are taking" : an interview with the Audre Lorde project's cara page / by Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis -- "Building the world that we want to live in" : an interview with Jennicet Gutierrez & Jorge Gutierrez from familia : TQLM / by Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis -- Putting the T back in LGBTQ trans activism and interests after marriage equality / by Courtenay W. Daum -- Centering intersectional politics : queer migration activisms "after marriage" / by Siobhán McGuirk, Jara M. Carrington, Claudia Cojocaru, Jamila Hammami, Marzena Zukowska -- Transnational perspectives -- After marriage, redefining freedom in the crosshairs of empire and dictatorship : observations towards a new politics of sexuality / by Raha Iranian Feminist Collective -- Between secularism and pro-Islamism : a historical review of LGBT activism during the pro-Islam JDP rule in Turkey / by Caner Hazar -- French LGBT activism after marriage / by Hugo Bouvard -- Queering the indignadxs movement in Spain : conflicts, resistances and collective learnings / by Gracia Trujillo -- Index