ABSTRACT Marriage equality is routinely located as evidencing a domestic, non-radical or neoliberal approach to sexual diversity. This article questions such assumptions by highlighting the reflexive approach to the utility of marriage and the significant diversity of opinion and attitudes towards marriage equality among gender- and sexually-diverse Australians. It does so by drawing on a major study of two social generations of gender- and sexually-diverse Australians’ conducted in the lead-up to a controversial postal survey on same-sex marriage in 2017. In the survey many participants discussed their views on marriage equality, its benefits, and how they saw its relationship or relevance to their own lives. This article identifies four themes present in participants’ responses: (1) the personal and domestic importance of marriage equality to some participants; (2) the social and political affordances of marriage equality for LGBTQ+ persons in Australia more generally; (3) the apparently unremarkable status of marriage equality for some participants; and (4) continuing deep ambivalence about marriage equality for others.

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婚姻平等：两代性别和性别多样化的澳大利亚人

摘要 婚姻平等通常被定位为证明对性多样性采取家庭的、非激进的或新自由主义的方法。本文通过强调对婚姻效用的反思性方法以及性别和性多样化的澳大利亚人对婚姻平等的意见和态度的显着多样性来质疑这些假设。它通过在 2017 年对同性婚姻进行有争议的邮政调查之前进行的一项针对两代澳大利亚人的性别和性多样化的社会世代进行的主要研究来实现这一点。在调查中，许多参与者讨论了他们对以下问题的看法婚姻平等、它的好处，以及他们如何看待它与自己生活的关系或相关性。本文确定了参与者回答中的四个主题：(1) 婚姻平等对一些参与者的个人和家庭重要性；(2) 澳大利亚 LGBTQ+ 人群婚姻平等的社会和政治承受能力；（三）部分参与者婚姻平等地位明显不突出；(4) 对他人的婚姻平等持续存在深刻的矛盾。