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Recently, a new body of work on sexuality and citizenship has emerged. In this article I analyse sexual citizenship through an examination of the concept of sexual rights. How has rights language been used to articulate demands in relation to sexuality? What do we mean by sexual rights or duties? Although the concept is not new, there are competing claims for what are defined as sexual rights and lack of rights, reflecting not only differences in how sexuality is conceptualized but also the fact that there is no singular agreed definition of sexual citizenship. The combination of sexual rights as a contested concept and the increasing usage of the language of citizenship in 'sexual politics', underlines the need for a critical analysis of its meaning and value as a concept. To this end, I have outlined a framework which tries to make sense of the different ways of interpreting sexual rights in terms of three main sub-streams apparent within sexual rights discourse: conduct-based, identity-based and relationship-based rights claims. This is not to imply an uncritical acceptance of the concept of sexual rights, however this may be defined. On the contrary, it is to attempt to clarify similarities and differences between both individual writers and social groups campaigning for social change in relation to sexuality, in order that we may have a more detailed understanding of the limitations and potential of the notion of sexual citizenship.

We sit at an interesting juncture in the evolution (in some cases, devolution) of the idea of sexual rights in international law. For at the very moment that we are experiencing a retraction in both domestic and international commitments to rights associated with sexual and reproductive health, we see sexual rights of a less-reproductive nature gaining greater uptake and acceptance. It is the moral hazard associated with perceived gains in the domain of international rights for lesbians and gay men that I want to address today. In the end, the point I want to bring home is that a particular kind of caution, and indeed a new kind of politics, is called for when the state becomes a partner in the project of converting wrongs into rights and outlaws into rights-bearing citizens. The ''patriotized'' rights-bearing lesbian or gay subject and "its" movement have a duty to actively resist being mustered into nationalist projects undertaken in its name and purportedly on its behalf.

Introduction: development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities / Amy Lind -- Part I. Querying/Queering Development: Theories, Representations, Strategies -- 1. Why the development industry should get over its obsession wtih bad sex and start to think about pleasure / Susie Jolly -- 2. Transgender development: reframing hijras and development / Jyoti Puri -- 3. Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: household models reconsidered / Suzanne Bergeron -- Part II. Negotiating Heteronormativity in Development Institutions -- 4. World Bank's GLOBE: queers in/queering development / Andil Gosine -- 5. NGOs as erotic sites / Ara Wilson -- 6. Promoting exports, restructuring love: the World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry / Kate Bedford -- 7. Headless families and detoured men: off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia / Susan Paulson -- Part III. Resisting Global Hegemonies, Struggling for Sexual Rights and Gender Justice -- 8. Spelling it out: from alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice / Sangeeta Budhiraja, Susana T. Fried and Alexandra Teixeira -- 9. Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: supporting gender transgression as a development strategy / Petra Doan -- 10. Behind the mask: developing LGBTI visibility in Africa / Ashley Currier -- 11. Queer Dominican moves: in the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses / Maja Horn.