LGBTIQ+ Politics beyond Europe: Care, Representation and Legal Recognition

Abstract

This panel examines how LGBTIQ+ politics beyond Europe are shaped by struggles over care, political representation, and legal recognition across diverse socio-political contexts. A paper investigates the factors affecting citizens' support of the Ugandan "Anti-Homosexuality Act", contributing to examining responses to elites’ instrumentalization of LGBTIQ+ issues. The other contributions highlight how marginalised communities develop alternative infrastructures of care and solidarity where institutional support is absent, as illustrated in Turkey through collective practices that frame healing as a political and relational process. Representation emerges as another critical axis: evidence from Brazil demonstrates that the electoral viability of LGBTIQ+ candidates depends not only on identity visibility but on access to financial and institutional resources in an increasingly polarised environment. Legal recognition is explored through comparative analyses of same-sex marriage in Asia, showing how institutional opportunities—rather than levels of religiosity—shape divergent trajectories between Taiwan and Japan, while also revealing the ambivalent effects of legalisation on privacy, stigma, and daily life. Finally, the panel turns to Hong Kong to investigate how transgender people navigate pronoun use in a bilingual context lacking legal gender recognition, illustrating how linguistic practices become central to self-definition, dignity, and social inclusion.

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The Price of Visibility: Campaign Finance and the Electoral Competitiveness of LGBTQI+ Candidates in Brazil	View Paper Details
Art as a Vehicle: Indigenization of Queer Rights and Transnational Solidarity in French North Africa	View Paper Details
Chinese-speaking Transgender People’s Experiences of Gender Pronouns	View Paper Details
Do citizens reward homophobic governments? Evidence from Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act	View Paper Details
Love, Religious Lobbies, and Institutional Opportunities: The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage in Japan and Taiwan	View Paper Details