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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... Same-Sex Partnership Debate in Slovenia: Between Declarative Support and Lack of Political Will Roman Kuhar and Metka Mencin Čeplak Part III Close-ups of the Western Balkans 8 9 10 The Struggle for Visibility and Equality: Bosnian LGBT ...
... gay-friendliness regardless of whether it believes in LGBT rights. Opponents can resist this historical moment only by ... same-sex marriage by opponents, and the EU similarly gauges countries' modernization by examining their stance on ...
... same-sex union proposals in Poland and Slovenia, respectively, examining the ... same-sex partnership regulations, but they also highlight the interaction ... partnership legislation had been debated in both countries even before they ...
... . Kuhar, R. (2011). Resisting change: Same-sex partnership policy debates in Croatia and Slovenia. Südosteuropa, 59(1), 25–49. Kuhar, R. (2012). Use of Europeanization frame in same-sex partnership 14 K. SLOOTMAECKERS ET AL.
... same-sex partnership issues across Europe. In E. Lombardo & M. Forest (Eds.), The Europeanization of gender equality policies: A discursive-sociological approach (pp. 168–191). Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. Kuhar, R ...