Gabriel Arkles graduated from New York University School of Law in 2004. After NYU, he joined the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) first as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and then as a Staff Attorney and Director of Prisoner Justice Initiatives. There he provided legal services to low-income people and people of color who are transgender, intersex, or gender nonconforming. He also engaged in impact litigation, public education, and policy work to advance justice for these communities. His work at SRLP spanned issues of public benefits, name changes, identity documents, immigration, discrimination, and shelter access, with a particular focus on prisoners’ rights. He joined NYU as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering in 2010 and currently serves on the Board of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and the Lorena Borjas Community Fund.
Gabriel Arkles is the author of Marriage and Mass Incarceration.
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 
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It’s quite a stretch to link gay marriage to mass incarceration – in fact, it borders on homophobic. Queer radicals should join forces with the religious right – they both come across as stridently moralistic and authoritarian.