LGBTIQ+ Politics beyond Europe (I): Youth, Visibility, Contexts

Abstract

This panel examines how LGBTIQ+ politics unfold beyond European contexts, with a particular focus on youth, visibility, and the socio-political environments in which inequalities are produced and contested. The contributions interrogate how legal reforms, cultural translation practices, authoritarian politics, and locally embedded forms of queer subjectivity shape the lived realities of LGBTIQ+ people across Latin America, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. The papers highlight the limits of visibility as a political resource, showing that legal advances do not necessarily translate into equitable experiences for LGBTQ+ youth in Argentina. They analyse artivism in North Africa as a strategy of indigenizing global rights discourses and forging transnational solidarities in contexts marked by accusations of Western cultural intrusion. The panel also explores how authoritarian regimes deploy anti-LGBTQ+ laws as legitimation tools, using evidence from Uganda to reveal differentiated gendered responses among citizens. Further, it investigates queer subjectivities in Indonesia, illuminating how acceptance, vulnerability, and religiously inflected social norms structure the everyday lives of waria communities. Finally, a contribution on Brazil theorises state-level LGBTphobic discourse as a form of governance generating material harm and political polarization.

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The Limits of Visibility: Policy Advances and Everyday Inequalities for LGBTQ+ Youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina	View Paper Details
Art as a Vehicle: Indigenization of Queer Rights and Transnational Solidarity in French North Africa	View Paper Details
Do citizens reward homophobic governments? Evidence from Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act	View Paper Details
Queer Subjectivity and Acceptance in Indonesia	View Paper Details
When Hate Becomes Policy: LGBTphobic Discourse as Government Strategy in Brazil	View Paper Details