Theoretical Perspectives on LGBT Representation and Party Politics
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Theoretical Perspectives on LGBT Representation and Party Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Theoretical Perspectives on LGBT Representation and Party Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Elections and the Role of LGBT Issues in the United States and Abroad" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: European journal of communication, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 520-534
ISSN: 1460-3705
Premised on the lack of in-depth engagements with television professionals' views as a unit of analysis in queer television studies, this essay presents the results of expert interviews with seven respondents employed in the Flemish television industry. Television professionals consider it commonsensical and even necessary to textually reflect sexual and gender diversity as a component to socio-cultural verisimilitude. On the other hand, they rely on a homonormative conception of LGBT+ representation that emphasizes assimilation and conformity. Closer analysis reveals that this strategy is informed by unwillingness to engage in stereotyping. Accordingly, the noted homonormativity of Flemish television fiction is a product of benevolence and paradoxical dispositions towards televising difference on the level of production. Consequently, the paper calls for scholars to engage with the industry as a supplement to critical textual explorations of LGBT+ portrayals on television.
Although transnational surrogacy has received much criticism owing to racial and class issues, the U.S. media portrays domestic surrogacy with overwhelming positive languages by employing specific narrative frameworks. Accompanying this shift, it is not so surprising that the number of gestational carrier cycles have skyrocketed from 727 to 3,423 over the last decade. (Note 1) In particular, increase in the number of gay and single men looking for surrogacy has yielded more controversies. This paper asks the following questions: How does the documentary Made in Boise present surrogacy in the context of a broader debate over feminist and LGBT's positions? How are gay parents used in the altruism narrative framework to downplay exploitation of surrogacy? By providing insight into the intricate economic and power relationships between surrogate and a new emerging group of intended parents, my case study prompts broader questions such as: How to best document the most authentic narratives of the surrogates? How can feminist and LGBT scholars reconcile their viewpoints over surrogacy? These are pertinent questions concerning exploitation and coercion in the industry, thus influencing future feminists' studies on reproductive technology and politics.
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In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"LGBT Politics and the Legislative Process" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Direct Democracy and LGBT Politics" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"LGBT People as a Relatively Politically Powerless Group" published on by Oxford University Press.
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Foreword / Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo -- Introduction -- PART 1: LGBTQ Voters 1. Profile of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Electorate in Canada / Andrea M.L. Perrella, Steven D. Brown, and Barry Kay 2. Winning as a Woman/Winning as a Lesbian: Voter Attitudes toward Kathleen Wynne in the 2014 Ontario Election / Joanna Everitt and Tracey Raney 3. Media Framing of Lesbian and Gay Politicians: Is Sexual Mediation at Work? / Mireille Lalancette and Manon Tremblay 4. Electing LGBT Representatives and the Voting System in Canada / Dennis Pilon -- PART 2: LGBTQ Representatives 5. LGBT Groups and the Canadian Conservative Movement: A New Relationship? / Frédéric Boily and Ève Robidoux-Descary 6. Liberalism and the Protection of LGBT Rights in Canada / Brooke Jeffrey 7. A True Match? The Federal New Democratic Party and LGBTQ Communities and Politics / Alexa DeGagne 8. Representation: The Case of LGBTQ People / Manon Tremblay 9. Pathway to Office: The Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, and Election of LGBT Candidates / Joanna Everitt, Manon Tremblay, and Angelia Wagner 10. LGBTQ Perspectives on Political Candidacy in Canada / Angelia Wagner 11. Out to Win: The ProudPolitics Approach to LGBTQ Electoralism / Curtis Atkins 12. LGBT Place Management: Representative Politics and Toronto's Gay Village / Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray -- Afterword: The Champion / Graeme Truelove -- Index
The purpose of this study is to discover positive-self and negative-other representations of Brunei's Sharia Law on LGBT through the lexical choices used by the New Strait Times and Bangkok Post also reveals the ideology from both of the media. This study uses a qualitative approach with critical discourse analysis as the research design. Following Van Dijk's analytical framework, the words were selected and classified into word class, type of meaning (lexical or contextual), and category (positive or negative). Ideology from both media is obtained from the cognition analysis of the journalist's expression based on the co-text, context, and social context (social condition). The result showed that both media used lexical choices that indicate positive representation of LGBT by stating LGBT as victims, while negative representation on Brunei's Government, Muslim, and Sharia law as a persecutor. There were four methods in indicating the positive representation of LGBT; noun/noun phrase representation, detailed information on a noun, verb indicating accusation, and verb indicating discrimination; also there were three methods used to indicate negative representation of Brunei's Government, Muslim, and Sharia law; noun/ noun phrase representation, verb indicating negative actions, and verb indicating provocations.
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In: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action
Introduction -- Part I: The identity-otherness dynamics -- Chapter 1. Identity, otherness, and sociocultural dynamics (Sergio Salvatore) -- Chapter 2. Theories and methods (Alessia Rochira) -- Part II: Maps of Otherness -- Chapter 3. Immigration (Giuseppe A. Veltri) -- Chapter 4. Islam (Gordon Sammuta) -- Chapter 5. LGBT (Alina Pop) -- Part III: Symbolic resources for the representation of otherness -- Chapter 6. The semiotic construction of Otherness (Sergio Salvatore) -- Chapter 7. An interpretative model: Semiotic fields and semiotic forces (Sergio Salvatore) -- Chapter 8. Implications for policy-making and further developments (Giuseppe Veltri).
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In: Social Sciences
1. LGBTQ+ Activism and the Power of Locals: Introduction Radzhana Buyantuyeva, Maryna Shevtsova -- Part I: It's new for them? Imagining post-socialist LGBTQ+ activism from the 'Western' perspective -- 2. Beyond Western Theories: On the Use and Abuse of "Homonationalism" in Eastern Europe; Roman Leksikov, Dafna Rachok -- 3. Visibility, violence and vulnerability: lesbians stuck between the post-Soviet closet and the Western media spectacle; Masha Neufeld, Katharina Wiedlack -- 4. "Мы не ошибка (We are not an Error): Documentary Film and Russia's Campaign Against "Gay Propaganda."; Clinton Glenn -- 5. "I'm gay, but I'm not like those Perverts": Negotiating Issues of Identity, Community and Activism among Homo- and Bi- sexual Russian Men; Cai Weaver -- Part II: Outlawing rainbows: LGBTQ+ rights, activism and the role of state in Central and Eastern Europe -- 6. Negotiating uncertainty around intimate citizenship: LGBTQI people and state recognition of same-sex partnerships in Estonia; Kadri Aavik -- 7. The Localization of Sexual Rights in Ukraine; Thorsten Bonacker, Kerstin Zimmer -- 8. Trends of homophobic activism in Romania or 'How to turn religious convictions into a referendum and still fail; Ramona Dima -- 9. Putin as Gay Icon? Memes as Tactic in Russian LGBT+ Activism; James E. Baker, Kelly A. Clancy, Benjamin Clancy -- Part III: Giving voice to locals: LGBTQ+ movement and queer politics in Central and Eastern Europe -- 10. Latvian LGBT movement and the narrative of normalizationl; Karlis Verdins, Jānis Ozoliņš -- 11. Framing queer activism in Poland - from liberal values to solidarity; Justyna Struzik -- 12. Polish asexualities: Catholic religiosity and asexual online activism in Poland; Anna Kurowicka, Ela Przybylo -- 13. Activism for rainbow families in Hungary: discourses and omissions; Rita Beres-Deak -- 14. Tension around LGBTQ community through the case of bisexual representations in Hungary; Rahel Katalin Turai -- 15. Conclusion; Radzhana Buyantuyeva, Maryna Shevtsova
"Women's rights" and "gender equality" are not straightforward or neutral terms. Competing political projects define them in different ways. The articles in this Special Section show how the struggle to define gender equality and women's rights has played out in different moments and in different types of media during the past hundred years in Turkey. The articles cover a range of historical and contemporary issues about women's rights and gender equality. This Special Section contributes to our understanding of institutional structures, actors and relationships, and media texts that shape the landscape of women's rights and gender equality in Turkey. In this introduction, I present the contributions and provide a summary of debates on gender and media in Turkey today.
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Based on conversations with and publications of Samir Amin, the article explores connections between his ideas on global political strategy and sexual self-determination. One of the questions is about struggles related to homosexuality in Africa. To what extent did he believe that some of the demands for sexual self-determination, including certain forms of feminism and LGBT rights, were so overly embedded in Eurocentrism that they were not fully suitable for popular struggles in many parts of the Global South? The question is framed in the context of state-centric conceptions of the political. Even if some of the analysis includes a critical tone toward his strategical options, it also highlights the continuing importance of Samir Amin as a point of reference for future struggles to create transnational and global instruments for democratic transformations. ; Peer reviewed
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ABSTRACT The present investigation called "Movement of lesbians, gays, bixsexuals, transsexuals in the construction of public policies of equality and non-discrimination. La Libertad, 2018", aims to describe the process of advocacy actions developed by the movement LGBT to build the regional public policy that promotes equality and non-discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the La Libertad Region, through Regional Ordinance No. 006-2014 - GR - LL / CR, promulgated in 2014. The ethnographic method has been used in order to describe and understand the beliefs, motivations, rules of coexistence, forms of organization and roles that the members of the LGBT movement of La Libertad fulfill. The case study method has also been used, which examines in various aspects each LGBT association from la Libertad. The data collection techniques were based on the group discussion with members of LGBT associations and in-depth interviews with the leaders of the LGBT movement, the members of the Regional Council and the technical representatives of the Regional Government civil servants, responsible for the implementation of the public policy. The aspects addressed throughout the investigation are described, from the collection and processing of the information to the discussion of the results. Within this framework, it is concluded that the LGBT movement has a significant impact on the construction of public policies that promotes equality and non-discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, through the creation of alliances and the development of initiatives that strengthen in the degree of participation, cohesion and organization to achieve specific levels of representation and legitimacy, within civil society and state institutions ; RESUMEN La presente investigación denominada "Movimiento de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales en la construcción de políticas públicas de igualdad y no discriminación. La Libertad, 2018", tiene como objetivo describir el proceso de incidencia política que desarrolló el movimiento LGBT en la construcción de la política pública regional que promueve la igualdad y no discriminación por orientación sexual e identidad de género en la Región La Libertad, a través de la Ordenanza Regional N° 006 -2014 – GR – LL/CR, promulgada el año 2014. Se ha utilizado el método etnográfico con el objetivo de describir y entender las creencias, motivaciones, reglas de convivencia, formas de organización y roles que cumplen los miembros del movimiento LGBT de La Libertad. También se ha utilizado el método de estudio de casos, que examina en diversos aspectos a cada asociación LGBT liberteña. Las técnicas de recolección de datos se basaron en la discusión grupal con integrantes de las asociaciones LGBT y entrevistas en profundidad a los líderes del movimiento LGBT, a los integrantes del Consejo Regional y a los técnicos representantes de los funcionarios del Gobierno Regional, responsables de la implementación de la política pública. Se describen los aspectos abordados a lo largo de la investigación, desde la recopilación y el procesamiento de la información hasta la discusión de resultados. En ese marco, se concluye que el movimiento LGBT incide de manera significativa en la construcción de políticas públicas de promoción de la igualdad y no discriminación por orientación sexual e identidad de género, a través de la generación de alianzas y elaboración de iniciativas que se afianzan en el grado de participación, cohesión y organización para lograr niveles específicos de representación y legitimidad, dentro de la sociedad civil y las instituciones del Estado. ; Tesis
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