Examining the transnational LGBT movement, this study highlights its significant growth and impact in contemporary society. It engages with both scholarly and popular debates, offering insights into the movement's dynamics and the challenges it faces. The work is a crucial resource for understanding the evolving landscape of LGBT activism on a global scale.
How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities
The book delves into the global movement aimed at restricting LGBTI rights, analyzing the strategies and key players involved in this conservative agenda. It examines the claims made by these groups and the various venues where resistance occurs. Additionally, the text highlights the responses from the LGBTI movement, showcasing the ongoing struggle for rights and recognition in the face of opposition.
This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region. These movements, the book argues, were inspired by specific ideas about Europe, which they sought to realize on the ground through activism.
Focusing on the transnational LGBT movement that has gained unprecedented momentum, this study is a timely contribution to debates both scholarly and popular.
"This book offers a sweeping and in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights, exploring both how this moral conservative movement functions-in terms of its key actors, claims, and venues of resistance-and how the LGBTI movement responds to it"--
Europas sexuelle Minderheiten und die Politik der Sichtbarkeit
In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten ist die LGBT-Bewegung (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) in einer im Vergleich zu anderen Menschenrechtsbewegungen beispiellosen Geschwindigkeit gewachsen. Phillip M. Ayoub zeichnet die jüngere Geschichte dieser transnationalen Bewegung in Europa nach. Er zeigt, wie das »Coming-out« die marginalisierte Gesellschaftsgruppe ins Zentrum der politischen Debatte rückte und ihr zu längst fälligen Rechten verhalf. Neben der Analyse der von der Bewegung vertretenen Normen steht vor allem die Frage im Zentrum, warum die gesellschaftsrechtliche Anerkennung der LGBT-Minderheiten in den jeweiligen Staaten so unterschiedlich verläuft.