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1. Introduction -- 2. From Western Deviance to Global Homonormativity? Theories of Sexuality and Sexual Diversity Politics -- 3. International Relations, Human Rights Diplomacy, and LGBT Rights -- 4. Global Homophobia, Queer Diplomacy, and Conflict -- 5. Researching LGBT Human Rights Diplomacy -- 6. The Mechanics of Human Rights Diplomacy -- 7. Promoting LGBT Human Rights in International Settings -- 8. Case Study: The 2014 US Resolution -- 9. Human Rights Diplomacy: Policy Implications.

LGBT transnational documentary "Becoming" / Christopher Pullen -- Trauma and triumph: documenting Middle Eastern gender and sexual minorities in film and television / Rebecca Beirne, Samar Habib -- Transsexual in Iran: a fatwa for freedom? / Sahar Bluck -- Sub-Saharan African sexualities, transnational HIV/AIDS educational film and the question of queerness / David Oscar Harvey -- The floating/fleeting spectacle of transformation: queer carnival, gay pride and the renegotiation of postapartheid identities / Ernst van der Wal -- The Argentinean movement for same-sex marriage / Margaret Cooper -- The politics of reclaiming identity: representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api / Andrew Hock Soon Ng -- Queer (im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany's and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian building / Stephanie Selvick -- Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the case of the "leading aberrant": early gay narratives in the British media / Kate Houlden -- The exotic erotic: queer representations in the context of post-colonial ethnicity on British TV / Peri Bradley -- Documenting the queer Indian: the question of queer identification in Khush and Happy hookers / Bryce J. Renninger -- Screening queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush / Daniel Farr, Jennifer Gauthier -- Gay pornography as Latin American queer historiography / Gustavo Subero -- Quo vadis, queer vato? Queer and loathing in Latino cinema / Richard Reitsma -- Queer art of parallaxed document: visual discourse of docudrag in Kutluǧ Ataman's Never my soul! (2001) / Çüneyt Cakirlar -- The drag queers the s/he binary: subversion of heteronormativity in Turkish context / Serkan Ertin -- If art imitated reality: George Takei, coming out, and the insufferably straight Star Trek universe / Bruce E. Drushel -- A Chinese queer discourse: camp and alternative desires in the films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye / Jason Ho Ka-Hang

AbstractAs a country with the largest Muslim population in the world, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issue in Indonesia has always been a hot topic to investigate. Social media such as Twitter is normally the main media where people normally discuss this LGBT topic. In this paper, we collect 18,552 tweets dated from 2015 up to 2018 to analyze the dynamics of the LGBT conversation among Indonesian peoples. In this research, we will explore the main topic of the LGBT conversation using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). LDA is one of the most popular methods of soft clustering. This technique is effective to identify latent topic information (hidden) in a collection of big data using a bag of words approaches that treat every document as a vector of total words and is represented as a probability distribution on several topics. The result shows that there are seven main categories that people normally talked about regarding LGBT i.e. politics, religion, government, ethics, nationality, culture, and technology. Looking at the topic probability distributions on each semester we found that it is generally homogenous. An exception occurs during the government election period where politic tends to have a significantly higher probability. In other words, we have found that there is a tendency that LGBT issues are used in Indonesian politics.Keywords: LGBT; politics; topic modeling; twitter. AbstrakSebagai negara dengan penduduk muslim terbesar di dunia, isu mengenai Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, dan Transgender (LGBT) di Indonesia adalah isu sensitif yang senantiasa menarik untuk diteliti. Media sosial seperti twitter adalah salah satu media yang biasa digunakan masyarakat untuk mendiskusikan tentang topik LGBT ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan 18.552 tweet tahun 2015 – 2018 dikumpulkan untuk melihat perbedaan pola perbincangan dari waktu ke waktu. Dalam penelitian ini, eksplorasi topik utama perbincangan LGBT dianalisis menggunakan metode Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). LDA adalah metode yang paling populer dalam soft clustering. Teknik ini efektif untuk mengidentifikasi informasi topik laten (tersembunyi) dalam koleksi dokumen besar menggunakan pendekatan bag of words yang memperlakukan setiap dokumen sebagai vektor jumlah kata dan direpresentasikan sebagai distribusi probabilitas atas beberapa topik, sementara setiap topik direpresentasikan sebagai distribusi probabilitas atas sejumlah kata. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa terdapat tujuh topik dominan yang sering muncul pada perbincangan tentang LGBT, yaitu politik, agama, pemerintahan, keasusilaan, kewarganegaraan, budaya dan teknologi. Pada kategori ini kemudian distribusi probabilitas topik dihitung dan dianalisa pada setiap semesternya. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa ada kecenderungan distribusi topik seragam, kecuali pada masa-masa pergantian pemerintahan dimana kategori politik cenderung meningkat secara signifikan. Dengan kata lain, ada kecenderungan bahwa isu LGBT dikaitkan dengan kehidupan perpolitikan di Indonesia.Kata kunci: LGBT, politik, topic modelling, twitter.

The final symposium contribution maintains that the current lack of an independent left in the US has left the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) movement in the US facing a dead end that has given politicians an "official pass to maintain homophobic & oppressive policies." The only way out of the dilemma is said to be a "U-Turn" that involves the rebuilding of a national movement for LGBT liberation based on the theoretical tools provided by Marxism. Adapted from the source document

The paper deals with the situation of sexual minorities in Bangladesh. Bangladesh, although historically a relatively tolerant and open-minded Muslim majority country, remains conservative on sexual matters. Therefore, large sections of Bangladesh's society seem to reject each sexual orientation which is perceived as "non-traditional" and portrays heterosexuality as the only accepted cultural norm. In consequence, homosexuality is becoming criminalized to such an extent that not only cultural values and societal norms but also national laws are in serious conflict with internationally accepted human, gender, and sexual rights.

1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual Tools for a Decolonising, Intersectional, Transnational LGBT Activism -- 3. Unpacking the Colonial Baggage of British Imperial Sexual Discourses -- 4. Contemporary Context of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Politics -- 5. Mapping the UK-Based NGO Landscape Engaged in Transnational LGBT Activism -- 6. UK Governmental Interventions in Transnational LGBT Activism -- 7. Navigating the Intersections of Colonial Legacies and LGBT Lives -- 8. Conclusion. .

"The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage Reforms" published on by Oxford University Press.

This chapter considers how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists in Namibia and South Africa appropriate discourses of decolonization associated with African national liberation movements. I examine the legal, cultural, and political possibilities associated with LGBT activists' framing of law reform as a decolonization project. LGBT activists identified laws governing gender and sexual nonconformity as in particular need of reform. Using data from daily ethnographic observation of LGBT movement organizations, in-depth qualitative interviews with LGBT activists, and newspaper articles about political homophobia, I elucidate how Namibian and South African LGBT activists conceptualize movement challenges to antigay laws as decolonization. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

The politics of gay and transgender visibility and representation at the Eurovision Song Contest, an annual televised popular music festival presented to viewers as a contest between European nations, show that processes of interest to Queer International Relations do not just involve states or even international institutions; national and transnational popular geopolitics over 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights' and 'Europeanness' equally constitute the understandings of 'the international' with which Queer International Relations is concerned. Building on Cynthia Weber's reading the persona of the 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst with 'queer intellectual curiosity', this article demonstrates that Eurovision shifted from, in the late 1990s, an emerging site of gay and trans visibility to, by 2008–2014, part of a larger discursive circuit taking in international mega-events like the Olympics, international human-rights advocacy, Europe–Russia relations and the politics of state homophobia and transphobia. Contest organisers thus had to take positions — ranging from detachment to celebration — about 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender' politics in host states and the Eurovision region. The construction of spatio-temporal hierarchies around attitudes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, however, revealed exclusions that corroborate other critical arguments on the reconfiguration of national and European identities around 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality'.

Identity movements, such as those representing LGBT communities, are assumed to be highly universalized; they are often thought to be highly dependent upon international linkages in order to emerge and develop. Although the Chinese LGBT movement owes much of its development to global civil society and international donors, this article presents survey and interview data that show its linkages with the international community are not as strong as we might expect. The article shows that economics and politics of transnational activism in China are tightly intertwined. The means by which LGBT activism has developed in China has simultaneously contributed to division within its ranks and with global civil society: the nature of international funding-while from foreign sources it is funneled through the Chinese government-and local political conditions ultimately impedes the growth of stronger transnational linkages. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

ABSTRACTLGBT advocacy is an emergent site attracting transnational funding from an expanded set of donor types that now include private corporations, national governments, NGOs, intergovernmental organizations and public–private partnerships. This article discusses LGBT advocacy as involving an expanded range of issues that go beyond a traditional focus on HIV/AIDS prevention. The geographical focus is on Singapore and Malaysia, two Southeast Asian countries where homosexuality is officially illegal. Alongside the global politics of LGBT rights, previous critiques about external funding and North/South asymmetries in transnational aid raise questions about its effectiveness for transformative socio‐political change, and its political and theoretical implications. Three case studies are examined: Pink Dot Singapore, and the PT Foundation and Kuala Lumpur activist workshops in Malaysia. The data demonstrate the capacity for transnational support to contribute to grassroots activism and coalitional politics. However, significant observable outcomes are currently limited, partly because most of the grants are modest, and Singapore and Malaysia's high‐ and middle‐income status excludes them from various funding bodies. Furthermore, domestic resistance to transnational funding has emerged, constituting more widespread discourses in which anti‐LGBT sentiment is framed in terms of opposing Western encroachments and the dominance of the global North.