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Through an examination of publicly mourned gay deaths in America, Brett Krutzsch counters the common perception that LGBT politics and religion have been oppositional to one another. 'Dying to Be Normal' reveals how gay activists have used religion to bolster the argument that gays are essentially the same as straights, and therefore deserving of equal rights.

1. Equalities, cities and ordinariness : introduction -- 2. Contextualising research and researching contexts : situating participatory projects -- 3. The promise of ordinary lives in a city paved with 'gay gold' -- 4. The gay scene : having it all? -- 5. Bi people and trans people under our umbrella? Contesting and recreating ordinariness -- 6. Ordinary activisms : possibilities beyond the dichotomies of radicalism/assimilation -- 7. Resistant ordinary activisms : safe in the 'gay city'? -- 8. Is pride political? Beyond (oppositional) politics in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans festivals -- 9. Ordinary in brighton? Conclusion.

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.

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)

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: From Homophobia to Hate Crime Laws -- Chapter 3: International Responses to Hate Crime -- Chapter 4: Polish, Catholic and…Gay? -- Chapter 5: Hate Crime and LGBT Advocacy in Poland -- Chapter 6: Transnational Hate Crime Advocacy -- Chapter 7: Not Just Homophobia: The Hate Crime Law Debate in Poland -- Chapter 8: Creeping Change: Policing and Monitoring of Hate Crime -- Chapter 9: Laws are Not Enough: Hate Crime in South-East Europe -- Chapter 10: Conclusion.

This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region. These movements, the book argues, were inspired by specific ideas about Europe, which they sought to realize on the ground through activism

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

Europe has long been regarded as a unique place for the promotion and furthering of LGBT rights. This important and compelling study investigates the alleged uniqueness and its ties to a relatively long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region. Contributors argue that LGBT movements were inspired by specific ideas about European democratic values and a responsibility towards human rights, and that they sought to realize these on the ground through activism, often crossing borders to foster a wider movement. In making this argument, they discuss the 'idea of Europe' as it relates to LGBT rights, the history of European LGBT movements, the role of European institutions in adopting LGBT policies, and the construction of European 'others' in this process.

Conceptualizing human rights practice as a way of life -- Forming the movement : founding emotions and social ties -- Transforming grievances : emotional fealty to human rights -- Building community : emotional bonds among activists -- Faults, fault lines, and the complexities of agency

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This article explores the networked politics of feminist and lgbt movements in Slovenia, focusing on the organizational ("actional") and the thematic (content-related) credo of the movements during the "All-Slovenian Uprisings" of 2012–2013. Analysing the movements' "repertoires of contention", the authors argue that the movements are driven by cross-movement and cross-issue (i.e. connective) alliances. They identify the presence and/or absence of those interconnections, and explore the content on which the movements focus and around which they generate various forms of activity. The empirical part of the article analyzes ten relevant feminist and lgbt movements in Slovenia and their online activities using the methods of network analysis. The results confirm the "prefigurative" character of movements, showing how they formulate their agenda in line with their own inner causes, so as to confirm their strategic orientation. The analysis also points to the development of the trans-thematic consciousness that emerges beyond the thematization of gender and sexual inequality, opening up larger anti-austerity issues.