United Kingdom: Changing political opportunity structures, policy success and continuing challenges for Lesbian, Gay and bisexual movements

The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 181-195

  Kollman, Kelly ^a   Waites, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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