Strategies and Challenges in LGBTQ+ Activism and Policy Engagement

Abstract

This panel focuses on challenges and strategies of LGBTQ+ activism and policy engagement. It explores the melting pot of activism, gender and sexual politics and the individual intimate experiences. Two papers of the panel provide a focus on policy engagement. One explores the perception of queer, trans and gender non-conforming political candidates, the other presents the context and strategies of 70 different LGBTQ+ organisations throughout Europe towards their national as well as international authorities. Three papers provide interesting case studies with engaging optics on Portuguese, Russian and Brazilian experiences of LGBTQ+ activists. The case study of Portugal claims it to be a puzzling case however with an LGBTQ+ friendly regime. The two rather hostile environments provide two different approaches to LGBTQ+ activism and their claims. The Brazilian case explores the so-called Gender Equality Machinery with double-edged outcomes. In Russia that disallows traditional ways of LGBTQ+ activism and organising, experiences and memories of Russian activists are present and travel on one hand among other activists creating an idea of collective identity, and on the other hand to transnational actors showcasing the different uses of temporality, space and place given different geopolitical situations.

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Lobbying Friends or Foes: Target Choice of LGBTQ+ Interest Groups when Lobbying for Policy Change?	View Paper Details
Man/Woman Enough: How Gender Presentation Shapes Voter Evaluations of Queer Cabinet Ministers	View Paper Details
When Gender Equality Machineries Open the Doors to the State: Do LBGTIQ+ Actors Enter Them Easily?	View Paper Details
Russian LGBT Activism and the Memory Politics of Sexual Citizenship	View Paper Details