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AbstractDuring the negotiations around the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Statute (ICCS) there was a fierce debate about the use and definition of the term 'gender' in its Article 7(3), with a sizeable number of states opposing the use of the term as a synonym for sexual orientation, which could have included lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons (LGBT). This paper is going to argue that the drafting compromise was ultimately an exercise in moral failure for the sake of the political feasibility, cementing one of the most glaring instances of discrimination, and that it is high time to correct that error, especially in the context of the rising tide of state‐sponsored homophobia that can be noticed in certain countries whose politics have drifted to the (far) right. It will examine whether the existing international criminal law does allow for the characterisation of domestic criminalisation as a crime against humanity, with or without the invocation of the term gender, and how to take the debate forward.

Responding to efforts to 'resurrect' International Relations theory, this article suggests that the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) – and, more controversially perhaps, queer – global sexuality politics can bring new and transformative insights to the discipline. The study of this global sexuality politics is replete with ideas and approaches that can and should be integrated with IR theory. The article first considers the general absence of global sexuality politics within IR, and why this is significant for theorising the international. It then surveys some recent scholarship which shows how the study of global sexuality politics can speak to and within IR.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Rights, Movements, and Critical Trans Politics -- 1. Trans Law and Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape -- 2. What's Wrong with Rights? -- 3. Rethinking Transphobia and Power-Beyond a Rights Framework -- 4. Administrating Gender -- 5. Law Reform and Movement Building -- Conclusion: "This Is a Protest, Not a Parade" -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Border politics: contests over territory, nation, identity, and belonging -- 2. "Border granny wants you!": grandmothers policing nation at the us-Mexico border -- 3. Defending the nation: militarism, women's empowerment, and the Hindu right -- 4. Borders, territory, and ethnicity: women and the naga peace process -- 5. Imperial gazes and queer politics: re/reading female political subjectivity in Pakistan -- 6. Indigenous peoples and colonial borders: sovereignty, nationhood, identity, and activism -- 7. Constricting boundaries: collective identity in the tea party movement -- 8. Occupy Slovenia: how migrant movements contributed to new forms of direct democracy -- 9. Challenging borders, imagining Europe: transnational lgbt activism in a new Europe -- 10. Frames, boomerangs, and global assemblages: border distortions in the global resistance to dam building in Lesotho -- 11. Networks, place, and barriers to cross-border organizing: "no border" camping in transcarpathia, Ukraine -- 12. "Giving wings to our dreams": binational activism and workers' rights struggles in the San Diego–Tijuana border region -- 13. Border politics: creating a dialogue between border studies and social movements -- About the contributors -- Index

This book interrogates the term "queer" by closely mapping what space the theorizing of same-sex sexualities and sexual politics in the non-West inhabits. From theoretical discussions around the epistemologies of such conceptualizations of space in the Global South, to specific ethnographies of same-sex culture, this collection hopes to forge a way of tracking the histories of race, class, caste, gender, and sexual orientation that form what is called the moment of globalization. The volume, co-edited by Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala, asks whether the societies of the Global South simply borrow and graft an internationalist (read Euro-US) language of LGBT/queer rights and identity politics, whether it is imposed on them or whether there is a productive negotiation of that language

This dissertation analyses the dyke body as a site of social networking. I use the term social network to refer to both virtual and real spaces. I do not employ social network as always meaning community; social network refers to affiliations, communal and the collective as well as connections made across and through media. The term dyke is used to push against the notion of queer and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politics. The purpose of theorizing dyke as opposed to lesbian or queer has to do with an historic investment in the singularity of dyke and the territory of dyke as other, resistant, and not feminine. This project draws from multiple theoretical lenses including performance studies, visual culture, sociality, ethnographic research, and archival research in order to place a study of a subculture of dyke into a discourse on performance, sexuality and networks. By looking across a multifarious archive of subcultural artifacts, the dyke body emerges as integral to LGBT politics and to the dissemination of the culture of the dyke locally and globally. Comic books, photography, video art, performance art, theater, legal proceedings, brand identity and the web have certainly been the objects of extensive studies, but collectively relating and reading these objects through the theory of social networking introduces a different concept of dyke – a connected, hyper/crosstextual, crossvisual, transindividual body. Collectivizing and group formation have been central to LGBT social and political protest in the U.S. This project aims to identify and register some of the alternate ways that dyke bodies have organized underneath and outside of typical LGBT frameworks. This dissertation specifically focuses on the group San Francisco Dykes on Bikes®, however, it also examines other forms of dyke connections in an effort to consider counter-strategies to collectivizing. Sites of Sociality: Performances of Dyke Identifications Through Social Networking looks at familiar and lesser-known cultural production of dyke and lesbian-focused artists as both an epistemological shift in thinking about agential power outside of normative bodies and a tracing of where that power might reside inside and outside of community.

Introduction to transgender rights and politics / Jami K. Taylor and Donald P. Haider-Markel -- Framing in the united states and abroad -- Issue framing and transgender politics : an examination of interest group websites and media coverage / Barry L. Tadlock -- Transgender policy in latin american countries : an overview and comparative perspective on framing / Jacob R. Longaker and Donald P. Haider-Markel -- Advocacy and interest groups -- Interest groups and transgender politics : opportunities and challenges / Anthony J. Nownes -- The advocacy coalition framework and transgender inclusion in lgbt rights activism / Jami K. Taylor and Daniel C. Lewis -- The diffusion and implementation of transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination policy -- Transgender-inclusive ordinances in cities : form of government, local politics, and vertical influences / Jami K. Taylor, Barry L. Tadlock, Sarah J. Poggione, and Brian DiSarro -- Is transgender policy different? : policy complexity, policy diffusion, andLGBT nondiscrimination law / Daniel C. Lewis, Jami K. Taylor, Brian DiSarro, and Matthew L. Jacobsmeier -- Executive expansion of transgender rights : electoral incentives to issue or revoke executive orders / Mitchell D. Sellers -- Policy learning, language, and implementation by local governments with transgender-inclusive nondiscrimination policies / Mitchell D. Sellers and Roddrick Colvin -- Beyond nondiscrimination policy -- Key issues in transgender health care policy and practice / Ryan Combs -- Birth certificate amendment laws and morality politics / Jami K. Taylor, Barry L. Tadlock, and Sarah J. Poggione -- Conclusion and future directions in transgender politics and policy / Jami K. Taylor and Donald P. Haider-Markel -- Contributors -- Index

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For a long time post-Soviet space has been perceived as homophobic and intolerant of LGBT persons. The three Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - as former Soviet republics and current members of the European Union, represent the space where a strong homophobic post-Soviet atmosphere competes with pro-LGBT Western influence. This article examines how the first LGBT Pride Parade (which occurred in Vilnius in 2010) is reflected in Lithuanian media portals. The article also presents the broader context of LGBT issues by reviewing legal changes and Lithuanian political parties' programs. Our analysis of the media and other sources is based on three arguments: 1) that the LGBT pride parade in Vilnius became the most important event for reflecting LGBT issues in the media and society; 2) it might have not been possible without support and influence from external institutions; and 3) the LGBT parade revealed the division of two competing normative trajectories in Lithuania. The reconstructed trajectories in the article are based on the theoretical framework of new institutionalism, media analysis, interviews and focus groups. Construction of the LGBT campaign and counter-campaign seem delimited rather than approaching them as value normative consensus. However, the way in which LGBT persons are reflected within the Lithuanian media is remarkably different in comparison with the early post-Soviet period. The Baltic gay pride parade "for equality" and external (Western) support for it were highly visible in the media, influenced a significant debate on the topic not otherwise experienced in Lithuania, and (re)introduced a question about the perception of 'normality' within society. These debates also raise the question of how norms and institutions change and adapt within society.

Preliminary Material /Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala --Introduction: The Global Careers of Queerness /Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala --Back in the Mythology of the Missionary Position: Queer Theory as Neoliberal Symptom and Critique /Neville Hoad --Queer of Color Critique and the Question of the Global South /Roderick A. Ferguson --Unqueering India: Toward a psychic account of same-sex subjects in South Asia /Ashley Tellis --Lesbianism, Saudi Arabia, Postcoloniality: Al-Akharun/The Others /Shad Naved --Dismantling the Pink Door in the Apartheid Wall: Towards a Decolonized Palestinian Queer Politics /Haneen Maikey and Mikki Stelder --The Silent Movements of the Iranian Queer /Iman Ganji --Localized Trajectories of Queerness and Activism under Global Governance /Josephine Ho --Of Comrades and Cool Kids: Queer Women's Activism in China /Wei Tingting --Queering Thailand: On the Emergence of New Gender and Sexual Identities /Witchayanee Ocha --Queer-(in') the Caribbean: The Trinidad experience /Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan --When the State Produces Hate: Re-thinking the Global Queer Movement through Silence in The Gambia /Stella Nyanzi --"Eating European Chicken": Notes toward Queer Intercultural Thinking /Guillermo Núñez Noriega --At the Forefront of Sexual Rights? Notes on Argentinean LGBT Activism /Soledad Cutuli and Victoria Keller --The Neocolonial Queer /Julieta Paredes --Outside and Onstage: Experiences of the lesbian feminist theater collective Teatro Siluetas from Guatemala and El Salvador /Laia América Ribera Cañénguez --Contributors /Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala --Index /Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala.

The article examines a set of documentaries that serves to promulgate a depopulation crisis narrative and heteronormative "natural family" solution for the World Congress of Families, a transnational network of primarily conservative Christian organizations engaged in "pro-family" politics. These videos provide a portable delivery system of rationales for preserving sexual norms aimed at countering claims for the sexual and reproductive rights of women and sexual minorities. The films, revolving around a theme of "demographic winter," warn of the collapse of social-security systems and ultimately the end of so-called Western civilization. The documentaries locate the problem principally in women's individual marriage and childbearing decisions and blame environmentalist, feminist, and LGBT-rights movements for spreading misinformation that fuels what the films declare to be problematic choices. The article argues that these documentaries employ a politics of fear in an attempt to secure social norms based on a set of gender and racial hierarchies. They mobilize fear of economic, moral, racial, and sexual chaos positioned against a "familiar" model of home, motherhood, and safety. The analysis highlights how emotional and demographic elements combine to shape an argument for patriarchy that resonates with a variety of global anxieties and political goals.

This paper analyzes, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. It will be achieved, firstly examining, what kind of political, judicial and public opinion context towards the LGBT groups surrounds lesbian and bisexual women. Also it will be answered by analyzing, how the different informants construct the group borders, e.g. Is there an LGBT community or a lesbian and bisexual community, who belongs there, how are the group boundaries constructed inside the group and how do they shift. Also it will be answered by examining, how do different informants see the possibilities of publicity, in order to reach for bigger visibility in the LGBT community and society. The aim of the research is to analyze, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. In the theoretical part of the research is based on feminist anthropology, especially with the focus on the aspects of identity and politics of beloninging, by considering the theory of intersectionality and queer. Research methodology includes: descriptive participant observation, semi-structured and focus-groups interviews, informal conversations. The ethnography reveals, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. It shows, that in Lithuania there is quite a negative, homophobic and biphobic political and judicial context towards the LGBT questions, in which lesbian and bisexual women feel discriminated and/or invisible. The paper also reveals, how multilayered and multidimensional is an identity of lesbian and bisexual women and what different meaning does it have to the informants.

This paper analyzes, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. It will be achieved, firstly examining, what kind of political, judicial and public opinion context towards the LGBT groups surrounds lesbian and bisexual women. Also it will be answered by analyzing, how the different informants construct the group borders, e.g. Is there an LGBT community or a lesbian and bisexual community, who belongs there, how are the group boundaries constructed inside the group and how do they shift. Also it will be answered by examining, how do different informants see the possibilities of publicity, in order to reach for bigger visibility in the LGBT community and society. The aim of the research is to analyze, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. In the theoretical part of the research is based on feminist anthropology, especially with the focus on the aspects of identity and politics of beloninging, by considering the theory of intersectionality and queer. Research methodology includes: descriptive participant observation, semi-structured and focus-groups interviews, informal conversations. The ethnography reveals, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. It shows, that in Lithuania there is quite a negative, homophobic and biphobic political and judicial context towards the LGBT questions, in which lesbian and bisexual women feel discriminated and/or invisible. The paper also reveals, how multilayered and multidimensional is an identity of lesbian and bisexual women and what different meaning does it have to the informants.

This paper analyzes, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. It will be achieved, firstly examining, what kind of political, judicial and public opinion context towards the LGBT groups surrounds lesbian and bisexual women. Also it will be answered by analyzing, how the different informants construct the group borders, e.g. Is there an LGBT community or a lesbian and bisexual community, who belongs there, how are the group boundaries constructed inside the group and how do they shift. Also it will be answered by examining, how do different informants see the possibilities of publicity, in order to reach for bigger visibility in the LGBT community and society. The aim of the research is to analyze, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. In the theoretical part of the research is based on feminist anthropology, especially with the focus on the aspects of identity and politics of beloninging, by considering the theory of intersectionality and queer. Research methodology includes: descriptive participant observation, semi-structured and focus-groups interviews, informal conversations. The ethnography reveals, how and in what ways is the commonness and difference of the lesbian and bisexual women created in the context of the LGBT community as well as in the context of a broader society. It shows, that in Lithuania there is quite a negative, homophobic and biphobic political and judicial context towards the LGBT questions, in which lesbian and bisexual women feel discriminated and/or invisible. The paper also reveals, how multilayered and multidimensional is an identity of lesbian and bisexual women and what different meaning does it have to the informants.