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El presente artículo es el resultado de una investigación cuantitativa sobre la violencia al interior de parejas de la diversidad sexual (LGBTI). Se realizó en octubre de 2014 una encuesta a población LGBTI, en la que se consultó por indicadores de violencia al interior de la pareja considerando sus manifestaciones: físicas, psicológicas, económicas y sexuales. En ella se constata que el 47% de los encuestados declara haber sufrido alguna situación de violencia. Además se revisan críticamente las políticas relacionadas con la diversidad sexual y la violencia intrafamiliar, dejando en evidencia el vacío institucional respecto a la violencia al interior de las parejas de la población no heterosexual, ya que no cuenta con instituciones que cuenten con la especialización en brindar apoyo psicosocial y jurídico. The present article is the result of a cuantitative study about violence in couples of the LGBT community. In October of 2014 a survey was conducted with the LGBT community, in which participants were asked about indicators of in-couple violence, considering its phisical, psychological, economic and sexual manifestations. This survey confirms that 47% of the participants suffered some kind of violence. Furthermore, politics related with the LGBT community and in couple violence are thoroughly revised, making clear the existence of an institutional vacum regarding in couple violence in non-heterosexual population, given the absence of institutions specialized in providing psychosocial and law support.

This paper investigates the convergence of European Union enlargement strategies and queer politics in the production of Islamophobia in Kosovo. Through a reading of recent homophobic attacks in Kosovo, it examines how the incorporation of lgbti politics into the eu enlargement assemblages generate a representational praxis of queer communities in Kosovo under threat by Muslim extremists. This paper proposes that the Europeanization of lgbti rights depoliticizes queer communities and singles them out for protection as victims of Islamic fundamentalism by creating binary and exclusionary Queer/Islam divisions that prevent the emergence of intersectional solidarities and subjectivities such as queer and Muslim. In this context, European financed 'coming out' projects gain a new meaning in Kosovo, one where the promotion of visibility for certain queer subjects works simultaneously to expose Muslim 'extremists'. Queer acceptance in Islamophobic times, then, becomes the ultimate test of who can and cannot become European citizen.

Die Studie erklärt, warum staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit LSBTI fördern sollte. Sie schildert, wie LSBTI-Aktivist_innen im Globalen Süden arbeiten, auf welche Herausforderungen sie stoßen und welche Erfahrungen sie beim Umgang mit Entwicklungszusammenarbeitsinstitutionen gemacht haben. Daneben umreißt die menschenrechtlichen Verpflichtungen Deutschlands und seiner Partnerländer und untersucht, welchen Beitrag menschenrechtliche Instrumente wie nationale Menschenrechtsinstitutionen und der Universal Periodic Review leisten können.

Social justice activism via staged protest interrupts official media discourses on national politics. This presentation will discuss the changes over the last fifteen years I have observed in social justice protests and social media activism that engage mainstream media attention. I will present and analyse two successful graphic-based campaigns that I ran in 2014. The 1st four-day campaign concerned Opera Australia's hiring of Tamar Iveri, a soprano singer who had advocated violence against LGBTI activists in her hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia. Mostly remaining within social media, this campaign utilised the initial viral spread of an infographic to target Facebook mechanisms that measure public satisfaction with commercial organisations and sponsors. The second month-long campaign concerned the proposed attendance of Australian government ministers at the anti-gay, anti-abortion "World Congress of Families" conference in Melbourne. Eventually crossing into mainstream media, this campaign succeeded via the utilisation of a variety of online and of offline participatory tactics. I will reflect on the mix of methods that are currently viable for establishing and (re)creating a complex cast of characters via graphics, public pranks, and other modes of storytelling.

This paper argues that current iterations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights are limited by an overreliance on particular representations of sexuality, in which homosexuality is defined negatively through a binary of homosexual/heterosexual. The limits of these representations are explored in order to unpick the possibility of engaging in a form of sexuality politics that is grounded in difference rather than in sameness or opposition. The paper seeks to respond to Braidotti's call for an "affirmative politics" that is open to forms of creative, future-oriented action and that might serve to answer some of the more common criticisms of current LGBTI rights activism.

This paper argues that current iterations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights are limited by an overreliance on particular representations of sexuality, in which homosexuality is defined negatively through a binary of homosexual/heterosexual. The limits of these representations are explored in order to unpick the possibility of engaging in a form of sexuality politics that is grounded in difference rather than in sameness or opposition. The paper seeks to respond to Braidotti's call for an "affirmative politics" that is open to forms of creative, future-oriented action and that might serve to answer some of the more common criticisms of current LGBTI rights activism.

This paper aims to analyze the process of organization of gay, lesbian,bisexual transvestite, transsexual, transgender and intersex identities (LGBTI)in San Salvador between 1992 and 2015. We identified four moments of thisprocess: 1) The "Gay Pride" represents the initial moment of organization inthe post-war period; 2) The "LGBTI" as result of the consolidation ofidentities; 3) The emergence of "Sexual Diversity" as a political player; and4) "Making a difference without being different" that represents restrictedsocial recognition. We used the concepts of sexual politics and symbolicactions for the analysis of each proposed historic moment. In conclusion, theLGBTI movement has promoted social questioning the binary patterns ofsexuality as well as the gender essentialism, through symbolic actions. Thesexual politics has focused on promoting the human rights of the LGBTpopulation.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Investigating Lesbian and Gay Activism -- PART I LESBIAN AND GAY ACTIVISM THROUGH TIME -- 1 Sodomy, Effeminacy, Identity: Mobilizations for Same-sexual Loves and Practices before the Second World War -- 2 The Homophile Movement -- 3 Gay Liberation and its Legacies -- 4 AIDS Activism from North to Global -- 5 Queer Movement -- PART II IDENTITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- 6 LGBT Identity and the Displacement of Sexual Liberation: New York City (1969–1986) -- 7 The Spatial Politics of Gay Pride Parades and Festivals: Emotional Activism -- 8 Lesbians, Second-Wave Feminism and Gay Liberation -- 9 People of Color Mobilization in LGBT Movements in the Netherlands and the United States -- 10 Inside or Outside? Bisexual Activism and the LGBTI Community -- 11 Trans Activism and LGB Movements: Odd Bedfellows? -- PART III SOCIAL MOVEMENT ENVIRONMENT -- 12 Political Institutions and LGBTQ Activism in Comparative Perspective -- 13 Lesbian and Gay Rights and the Courts -- 14 "Lesbian and gay rights are human rights": Multiple Globalizations and LGBTI Activism -- 15 Caught in a Web? The Internet and Deterritorialization of LGBT Activism -- 16 Faith and Religion -- 17 Neoliberalism, Citizenship and Activism -- PART IV CLAIMS AND DEBATES -- 18 Decriminalizing Homosexuality: Gaining Rights through Sodomy Law Reform -- 19 SM Politics, SM Communities in the United States -- 20 Same-sex Partnership and Marriage: The Success and Costs of Transnational Activism -- 21 Rainbow Families and the State: How Policies Shape Reproductive Choices -- Afterword Liberating Generations: Continuities and Change in the Radical Queer Western Era

Intro -- Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Reader -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Section 1: Theory and Research -- 1. Quo Vadis Women's and Gender Studies in Africa? Assessing the Activism/Academy Association -- 2. Women and Society in Female Authored Short Stories and Poems from Namibia: The Dimensions of Oppression and Violence -- 3. Local Contexts, Local Theory: Revisiting Standpoint Theory through Situated Ethnographic Vignettes -- 4. Reinforcement or Transformation: A Feminist Critique of the Representation of Women in Two Popular South African Television Dramas -- Section 2: Gender, Culture and Power -- 5. Women as Mediators in South Africa -- 6. African Marriages in Transformation: Anthropological Insights -- 7. LGBTI Rights and Experiences in Three Southern African Nations -- Section 3: Gender and Education -- 8. Women, Education and Sustainable Development in Sudan -- 9. Women in Teaching and Educational Administration in Kenya -- Section 4: Gender, Law, Business and Economic Development and Politics -- 10. Women and Entrepreneurship Development - The Case of South Africa -- 11. Women and Small Scale Entrepreneurship: Perspective from the SADC Region -- 12. Women, Land Use, Property Rights and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe -- 13. The Role of Women in Political Decision Making in East and Southern Africa: A Case Study of Kenya and South Africa -- Section 5: Gender, Health and Violence -- 14. Gender and HIV in Namibia: The Contribution of Social and Economic Factors in Women's HIV Prevalence -- 15. Women and State Violence in Zimbabwe, 2000-2008 -- About the Contributors -- Index.