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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... elite employ 'political homophobia' (Weiss and Bosia 2013, see also Currier 2010) as a 'purposive strategy' to depict LGBT people as the ultimate 'other'. In Central European EU member states, the LGBT issue has been positioned onto the ...
... acceptance of other identities, especially those based on gender identity and sexual orientation. These identities are seen by political elites as a threat INTRODUCTION: EU ENLARGEMENT AND LGBT RIGHTS—BEYOND SYMBOLISM? 11.
... elites as a threat to the dominant national identities, as they cross ethno-sexual boundaries. Swimelar describes in detail how religious and nationalist political homophobia affects the work of local NGOs that are supported by the EU ...
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