LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space: On the Rainbow Way to Europe

Author(s)

Bojan Bilic

Abstract

Contributors to this book show how the long EU accession process disseminates discursive tools employed in LGBT activist struggles for human rights and equality. This creates a linkage between “Europeanness” and “gay emancipation” which elevates certain forms of gay activist engagement and perhaps also non-heterosexuality, more generally, to a measure of democracy, progress and modernity. At the same time, it relegates practices of intolerance to the LGBT community to the status of non-European primitivist Other who is inevitably positioned in the patriarchal past that should be left behind.

Organisation(s)

Department of Education, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

No. of pages

267

Publication date

2016

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504014 Gender studies

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/684e94b6-65a6-4c02-924f-5be3228166de