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1 1. The law banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, education and public accommodation and was passed in April 2005. It did not mention civil partnerships or marriage. Accounts from newspapers in Maine are available on www.shgresources.com/me/newspapers, and this particular demonstration and counterprotest took place on 28 April 2005.

2 2. Only a few countries give full marriage rights to lesbians and gays (Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain). (The issue is unresolved in the USA, where the Supreme Court of Massachusetts has voted for full marriage rights, in conflict with most other states in the Union, provoking an on- going legal/constitutional battle.) However, a range of countries have legislation that recognizes some form of partnership – either ‘civil unions’ or ‘registered partnerships’, or will at least recognize partnerships for the purposes of immigration. Most of these are in Western Europe but also include Australia and New Zealand, Israel, Argentina and Brazil. For country- specific information, you can check out Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights organizations with information on current status of legislation and campaigns on a wide variety of issues, based in the USA and UK: www.hrc.org; www.ilga.org; www.stonewall.org.uk.These sites contain up- to- date campaign information on same- sex marriage, but for an excellent introduction to these issues in the USA, see the book by A. Sullivan, Same- Sex Marriage, Pro and Con: A Reader (2004).

3 3. In his comprehensive introduction to sociological theory, Swingewood points out that Marx’s collaborator, Engels, did relate the subordination of women within the family to the development of capitalism in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, published in 1884, but that this approach used the usual concepts of sociology rather than thinking through gender as a distinct sociological concept (Swingewood, 2000: 237). It is interesting to note that in this third edition of the text, Swingewood still refers to feminist sociology and the sociology of sexuality as examples of new directions in sociological thought.