Europe ♡ gays? Europeanisation and Pride parades in Serbia

Autor(en)

Bojan Bilic

Abstrakt

This chapter demonstrates the increasingly relevant symbolic link between EU accession, the paramount political process in contemporary Serbia, on the one hand, and various forms and strategies for the liberation of non-heteronormative sexualities in this still highly patriarchal country, on the other. I approach this hegemonic relationship between Europeanisation and LGBT activism primarily through the history of Belgrade pride marches/parades. By amalgamating a variety of social practices, forces, and interests that revolve around poorly known and deeply stereotyped sexual behaviours together with the discourses of European integration and the multifaceted narratives of national belonging (and exclusion), Pride parades constitute a matrix which weaves together sexual, political, legal, and religious dimensions and in annual cycles sharpens and exposes the complexities of LGBT-related politics and activisms.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Seiten

117-153

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57261-5_5

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/europe--gays-europeanisation-and-pride-parades-in-serbia(9dccf509-d49d-46b2-b022-122ce9c6c9ac).html