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ABSTRACTCosta Rica and Colombia, two of the earliest Latin American countries to protect many LGBT rights, attempted to amplify those rights and litigate same-sex marriage (SSM) in mid-2000s; however, these attempts sparked a major anti-LGBT backlash by religious and conservative organizations. Yet a decade later, Colombia legalized SSM while Costa Rica still lacks the right to SSM. Using a most-similar systems comparative case study, this study engages the judicial politics literature to explain this divergent outcome. It details how courts, while staying receptive to many individual LGBT rights claims, deferred SSM legalization to popularly elected branches. In spite of the lack of legislative success in both countries, in Colombia a new litigation strategy harnessed that deference to craft a litigated route to legalized SSM. In Costa Rica, the courts' lack of conditions or deadlines has left SSM foundering in the congress.

International audience ; The links between the fight against HIV/AIDS, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) mobilizations around the world have been extensively demonstrated. However, there are few empirical studies on the effects of new strategies based on access to treatments for homosexuals in Africa, especially in countries where same-sex relationships are punishable by law. In discussing the relationship between HIV/AIDS policies and the formal recognition and inclusion of homosexuals, we ask if it is possible to speak of a therapeutic citizenship. From a sociological and legal perspective, what is important is how the recent global strategies and human rights discourses on HIV/AIDs are impacting the emergence of engaged social actors whose claims go well beyond access to treatments but challenge the Cameroonian legal and health systems. However, LGBT rights advocates' claim for full citizenship through participatory inclusion in public life may not turn out to be successful as it encloses their rights within a pathologized identity, the HIV epidemic. This paper also raises a crucial issue (citizenship) associated with the politics of homosexuality in Africa and offers an empirical dimension on how global health and human rights discourses affect the relationship between State and society in Cameroon. ; Les liens entre la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA et les mobilisations LGBT dans le monde entier ont été largement démontrés. Cependant, il existe quelques études empiriques relatives aux effets de nouvelles stratégies fondées sur l'accès aux traitements pour les homosexuels en Afrique, en particulier dans des pays où les relations entre partenaires de même sexe sont sanctionnées par la loi. Discuter de la relation entre les politiques en matière d'VIH/SIDA et la reconnaissance et l'inclusion formelle des homosexuels, est l'occasion de nous demander s'il est possible de parler d'une citoyenneté thérapeutique. D'un point de vue sociologique et juridique, ce qui importante est la façon dont les ...

International audience ; The links between the fight against HIV/AIDS, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) mobilizations around the world have been extensively demonstrated. However, there are few empirical studies on the effects of new strategies based on access to treatments for homosexuals in Africa, especially in countries where same-sex relationships are punishable by law. In discussing the relationship between HIV/AIDS policies and the formal recognition and inclusion of homosexuals, we ask if it is possible to speak of a therapeutic citizenship. From a sociological and legal perspective, what is important is how the recent global strategies and human rights discourses on HIV/AIDs are impacting the emergence of engaged social actors whose claims go well beyond access to treatments but challenge the Cameroonian legal and health systems. However, LGBT rights advocates' claim for full citizenship through participatory inclusion in public life may not turn out to be successful as it encloses their rights within a pathologized identity, the HIV epidemic. This paper also raises a crucial issue (citizenship) associated with the politics of homosexuality in Africa and offers an empirical dimension on how global health and human rights discourses affect the relationship between State and society in Cameroon. ; Les liens entre la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA et les mobilisations LGBT dans le monde entier ont été largement démontrés. Cependant, il existe quelques études empiriques relatives aux effets de nouvelles stratégies fondées sur l'accès aux traitements pour les homosexuels en Afrique, en particulier dans des pays où les relations entre partenaires de même sexe sont sanctionnées par la loi. Discuter de la relation entre les politiques en matière d'VIH/SIDA et la reconnaissance et l'inclusion formelle des homosexuels, est l'occasion de nous demander s'il est possible de parler d'une citoyenneté thérapeutique. D'un point de vue sociologique et juridique, ce qui importante est la façon dont les ...

International audience ; The links between the fight against HIV/AIDS, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) mobilizations around the world have been extensively demonstrated. However, there are few empirical studies on the effects of new strategies based on access to treatments for homosexuals in Africa, especially in countries where same-sex relationships are punishable by law. In discussing the relationship between HIV/AIDS policies and the formal recognition and inclusion of homosexuals, we ask if it is possible to speak of a therapeutic citizenship. From a sociological and legal perspective, what is important is how the recent global strategies and human rights discourses on HIV/AIDs are impacting the emergence of engaged social actors whose claims go well beyond access to treatments but challenge the Cameroonian legal and health systems. However, LGBT rights advocates' claim for full citizenship through participatory inclusion in public life may not turn out to be successful as it encloses their rights within a pathologized identity, the HIV epidemic. This paper also raises a crucial issue (citizenship) associated with the politics of homosexuality in Africa and offers an empirical dimension on how global health and human rights discourses affect the relationship between State and society in Cameroon. ; Les liens entre la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA et les mobilisations LGBT dans le monde entier ont été largement démontrés. Cependant, il existe quelques études empiriques relatives aux effets de nouvelles stratégies fondées sur l'accès aux traitements pour les homosexuels en Afrique, en particulier dans des pays où les relations entre partenaires de même sexe sont sanctionnées par la loi. Discuter de la relation entre les politiques en matière d'VIH/SIDA et la reconnaissance et l'inclusion formelle des homosexuels, est l'occasion de nous demander s'il est possible de parler d'une citoyenneté thérapeutique. D'un point de vue sociologique et juridique, ce qui importante est la façon dont les stratégies mondiales récentes et les discours sur les Droits de l'homme sur les VIH/SIDA ont un impact sur l'émergence d'acteurs sociaux engagés dont les revendications dépassent largement l'accès aux traitements et questionnent les systèmes juridiques et de santé du Cameroun. Cependant, la prétention des défenseurs des droits des LGBT revendiquant une citoyenneté complète à travers une inclusion participative dans la vie publique pourrait ne pas réussir puisque cela enferme leurs droits dans une identité pathologisée, l'épidémie de VIH. Cet article soulève aussi une question essentielle (citoyenneté) associée aux politiques relatives à l'homosexualité en Afrique et présente une dimension empirique sur la façon dont les discours mondiaux sur la santé et les droits de l'homme affectent la relation entre l'Etat et la société au Cameroun.

This paper proposes to critically examine the LGBTphobic comments of social workers against the content of the video For Social Work there is no "gay cure", created by the Brazilian Federal Council of Social Work (CFESS). Thus, based on the theoretical and methodological principles of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this research investigates how the construction of meanings of the arguments made in those prejudiced posts proceeds. CDA proposes to describe, interpret and disseminate how forms of power, domination and social inequality are (re)produced in discursive practices, in their socio-political and cultural contexts. More particularly, this study turns its attention to the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos observed in those statements that were favorable to the proposition of therapies for sexual (re)orientation ("gay cure"), thus reproducing the hate speech, stigmatization and discrimination against the human rights of the members of the gender and sexuality diverse community. The findings can be arranged into five analytical categories: the cis-hetero-compulsory rhetoric, the "freedom of thought" rhetoric, the "right to choose" rhetoric, the neoconservative rhetoric and the religious rhetoric.

The European Union (EU) praises itself for being a promoter of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the world. It supports LGBT organisations abroad with the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR). Yet, the EIDHR has come under scrutiny by scholars arguing that it is based on neoliberal rationalities and depoliticises civil society. The literature analyses the EU's documents but does not study funding in practice. Moreover, it has a narrow understanding of politicisation failing to include insights from feminist and queer literature. To problematize the EU's policy, we need to analyse it in the sites it intervenes in. It is unclear whether and how the EIDHR depoliticises LGBT organisations and issues. Studying the case of Turkey, I argue that the EU's support of LGBT organisations had ambiguous effects which are not necessarily the ones intended by the EU nor the ones expected by the governmentality literature. The EU's funding depoliticised the organisations in the sense that they looked less political and more transparent. Yet, this helped making LGBT rights' claims more legitimate within Turkey's political struggles. At the same time, EU funding created conflicts within the LGBT movement about the question of Western external funding and neoliberal co-optation.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Time Line -- Introduction: Two Moms -- 1. A Brief History to 1900 -- Find Aquarius -- Write a Free Verse Poem -- Invent a Secret Language -- 2. The Birth of a Movement, 1900-1930s -- Singing the Blues -- 3. In the Shadows, 1940s-1950s -- Make Up a Song Parody -- Form a Club -- Conduct an Inkblot Test -- Learn "The Madison" Line Dance -- 4. Out of the Closets, 1960s -- Make a Button -- Build a Teleidoscope -- 5. Into the Streets, 1970s -- Symbolize This -- Design a Flag -- 6. AIDS and a Conservative Backlash, 1980s -- The High Five -- Go on a Ribbon Hunt -- Remember a Loved One with a Quilt Panel -- 7. Setbacks and Victories, 1990s -- Boycott -- Read a Banned Book -- Try A Day With(out) Art -- Perform a Monologue from The Laramie Project -- 8. Things Get Better, 2000-Present -- "Vote" on a Proposition -- Stop the Bullying -- Afterword: Everyday Heroes -- Acknowledgments -- Resources -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.