The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and PrejudiceKoen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet, Peter Vermeersch Springer, 2016 M06 23 - 238 pages This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings — arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn ‘sexual others’ into ‘national others,’ the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights.
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... activists and policymakers. In preparation for the ultimate selection of papers, we participated in several international meetings and initiated a number of meetings ourselves. In April 2014, we organized a panel on “EU enlargement and LGBT ...
... LGBT rights have acquired important symbolic value in EU politics and ... activists been able to utilize the new European opportunity structure ... LGBT community (Do highly visible forms of activism such as pride parades manage to ...
... LGBT rights in the enlargement process (see e.g. Ayoub 2014, 2015; Kahlina ... activists (see e.g. the chapter by Kristofferson, Roozendaal and Poghosyan ... LGBT activism (see the chapter by Bilić 2016). In doing so, the book ...
... LGBT' is rather prominent. The reason is straightforward: the acronym is dominant in EU policies and documents, as well as in the world of Central European and Balkan activism. Nevertheless, we should clarify that this acronym, like ...
... activism, and prejudices are part of a bigger system, and trying to separate them would not do justice to its complexity. The first part of the book, The Broader Picture: LGBT Issues in the EU, focuses on the EU and sketches the wider ...