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AbstractTo be 'politically queer' at the beginning of the 1990s indicated opposition to the policing of identity and heteronormativity, and adherence to a politics that transcended liberal‐legal claims. More recently, queer activism and scholarship have largely focused on contesting the emergence of homonormative forms of nationalism and institutionalized rights‐based LGBT politics. However, to define a political intervention as queer on the condition that it explicitly adheres to one or other specific political project is possibly to overstate the case. The 'queer signifier' has travelled far beyond its local origins and, as a consequence, has shifted meanings in significant ways. In this essay, I consider current tensions concerning what it means to be politically queer, focusing on queer responses to the formation of sexual rights‐bearing subjects, and critically analyse the notion of sexual rights on which contemporary international mainstream sexual politics is based. Through this analysis I aim to draw attention to the entanglement of the normalization of sexual identities at a national level with current sexual neocolonial projects. Since the signifier 'queer' has spread in many different directions, I argue that it is precisely cultural translation that makes key alliances against both universalist and nationalist queer positions possible.

Intro -- Foreword -- 1 The History of Identity Politics -- Close-up: The Gay Holocaust -- Homosexuality as a Disorder -- The Stonewall Riots -- Close-up: The First LGBT Rights Organizations -- Close-up: The Civil Rights Movement's Gay Hero -- The LGBT Rights Movement-and Its Backlash -- The Impact of the AIDS Crisis -- The Gay Response to AIDS: Organize -- Antigay Hate Crimes -- 2 Marriage Equality -- Close-up: LGBT Parenting -- Two Steps Forward… -- …One Step Back -- A Civil Rights Issue -- Close-up: Marriage Equality's Repercussions -- At Long Last, Victory -- Enduring Past Death -- 3 LGBT People in the Military -- Giving a Face to Gay Servicemen -- Serving in Silence -- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- Close-up: Harassment of LGBT Service Members -- Repeal…and Respect -- 4 Workplace Issues and Discrimination -- Standing Up to Discrimination -- The Fight for Workplace Protection -- Close-up: ENDA and Hobby Lobby -- Shattering the Workplace Closet -- Winning the Battle Slowly But Steadily -- Series Glossary -- Further Resources -- Index.

Europeanisation, LGBT activism, and non-heteronormativity in the post-Yugoslav space : an introduction / Bojan Bilić -- Discontents of professionalisation : sexual politics and activism in Croatia in the context of EU accession / Nicole Butterfield -- The First European Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film was Yugoslav : dismantling the geotemporality of Europeanisation in Slovenia / Sanja Kajinić -- Growing oppression, growing resistance : LGBT activism and Europeanisation in Macedonia / Ana Miškovska Kajevska -- Europe [heart symbol] gays? : Europeanisation and pride parades in Serbia / Bojan Bilić -- Queering as Europeanisation, Europeanisation as queering : challenging homophobia in everyday life in Montenegro / Danijel Kalezić and Čarna Brković -- From Orientalism to homonationalism : queer politics, Islamophobia, and Europeanisation in Kosovo / Piro Rexhepi -- On the other side of an ethnocratic state? : LGBT activism in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina / Adelita Selmić -- Beyond EUtopian promises and disillusions : a conclusion / Bojan Bilić and Paul Stubbs

AbstractIn this article we apply insights from 'new mobilities' approaches to understand the shifting sexual and gendered landscapes of major cities in the global North. The empirical context is the purported 'demise' of traditional gay villages in Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia, and the emergence of 'LGBT neighbourhoods' elsewhere in the inner city. We reinterpret the historical geography of twentieth century LGBT lives and the associated 'rise and fall' of gay enclaves through the lens of the 'politics of mobility'. In this reading, it is apparent that multifaceted movements — migration, physical and social mobility, and motility — underpin the formation of gay enclaves and recent transformations in sexual and gendered landscapes. After the second world war, LGBT communities in the global North were embedded in specific historical geographies of mobility and we trace these in the Canadian and Australian contexts. The 'great gay migration' from the 1960s to the 1980s has been joined by new LGBT constellations of mobility in the 2000s, and these have imprinted upon the sexual and gendered landscapes of Toronto and Sydney.

A critical discursive analysis of the It Gets Better Project with special attention to the racial politics of the contributors and messages communicated to the target audience of LGBT online youth.

This paper discusses the developmental dynamics of Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) lgbt (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) activism in the context of the European integration (Europeanization) process. Although the official politics of BiH authorities aspires towards the European Union (eu), the country's political deadlock and the steady position of the potential eu candidate, have created conditions in which activism operates with declarative and financial support from European organizations while having very limited impact on policies and local institutions. In this set-up, lgbt activism and non-heterosexual sexualities are placed between the specific local context of an ethnocratic state and the Western European narratives of lgbt rights and freedoms. I draw upon a range of primary sources, including the material obtained through a series of semi-structured interviews with activists, to argue that, for the time being, the lgbt movement in BiH lacks either governmental, political or societal support. However, marginal sites of non-heteronormative resistance could potentially appear as a departure point for creating an intersectionality-sensitive political platform from which to struggle for a general civic and political equality and institutional accountability.

This article explores the substantive representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in party manifestos in general elections and regional elections in the United Kingdom, 1945–2011. The findings show that while there is some evidence of progress, there is also significant variation in the attention that parties afford to LGBT issues, and a general failure to fully apply international principles and mainstreaming theory in election programmes. It is argued that an 'asymmetrical electoral bargain' applies: parties increasingly court LGBT voters yet often do so in a reductive and limited manner. This suggests that elements of institutionally homophobic practice endure in contemporary electoral politics.

The LGBT rights are lately one of the aspects of a social and political discourse both in the Russian Federation and in Ukraine. In these countries of a common historical heritage there are some analogies in the perspective on human rights and their realization. It may be also noted that the LGBT rights have become an instrument of politics. In the following article the authors present a comparative analysis of the way in which the LGBT rights are respected in the Russian Federation and in Ukraine. They will depict the similarities and differences between these two countries which result from historical conditions, and will provide an analysis of the current perception of non-heterosexual people in both countries.

Karma Chavez's forthcoming book, Queer Migration Politics, suggests that neither the inclusionary politics of the mainstream US LGBT rights movement nor the utopian turn in some queer theory sufficiently capture the possibilities for queer politics in this moment. Drawing on the rhetoric of activists working at the various intersections and convergences of queer and immigration rights and justice, Chávez advocates that coalition is a productive alternative to both inclusionary and utopian approaches, even as coalitional approaches sometimes draw upon them both. In this talk, Chavez sketches the main arguments in the book and discusses some of the key case studies from activist rhetoric in the contemporary United States. A podcast of the lecture can also be found on the Decolonizing Sexualitie Network website at http://www.decolonizingsexualities.org/karma-chavez-lecture/.