ABSTRACT
The summer of 2015 was monumental for queer politics concerning the family in U.S. popular culture and society. In early June of that year, the image of the Kardashian family of reality television fame was forever altered when Caitlyn Jenner, the once-patriarch of the clan, unveiled herself on the cover of Vanity Fair after “coming out” in the media as a transgender woman. Later that same month, on June 26, the Supreme Court ruled state-level bans against same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional, in effect legalizing these marriages across the nation and changing how family would be constituted in the country.
