Global LGBTQ Activism

Focused on understanding and analyzing LGBTQ activism and protest globally, this edited collection brings together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ protests and their impact.

Autorentext

Paromita Pain is Associate Professor of Global Media Studies at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on alternate media and global journalism practices from feminist and LGBTQ perspectives. She has a particular interest in international communication and newsroom norms. She has researched journalism and news practices and LGBTQ activism in India, Taiwan, the US, and Latin America. She is the editor of LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective (2022).

Inhalt

1. LGBTIQ+ causes and connective action: actors, issues, support, and frames in online petitions: Adolfo Carratalá 2. The Voice of the Voiceless: Queerphobic Statism and Queer Youth Advocacy in China: Yidong Wang 3. Western funding and its consequences for the Ugandan LGBT+ rights struggle negotiating community dynamics and activism during Pride 2022: Cecilia Strand & Jakob Svensson 4. Orientalist Narratives and Subversive Activism in the Lead-Up to the 2022 World Cup: Christina M. Paschyn 5. Genealogy of the homosexual pejorative: Ragan Fox 6. Western influences, eastern realities: LGBTQ activism in Hungary: Hanna Dorottya Szabó and Éva Gáti 7. #QueerRevolutionMorocco: A Disoriented Moroccan (Counter-)Archive from The Eyes of Its Queers: Hatim Rachdi 8. Pakikipagkapwa in the LGBTQIA+ movement for the enactment of the SOGIE Equality Bill: Jonalou S.J. Labor and Ma. Rosel S. San Pascual 9. We Don't Talk About Homos: Queer Activism and the Fight to Make #DisneySayGay: Jennessa Hester 10. The LGBTQ activist on social media: Analyzing LGBTQ activism online in India and Taiwan: Paromita Pain and Victoria Y Chen 11. LGBTQ activism to counter "Don't Say Gay," trans athlete bans and other attacks on affirming education in US public schools: Laura Finley 12. Disrupting the simulacrum of normalcy: queer online activism and protest in Thailand: Nuntiya Doungphummes, Narongdej Phanthaphoommee and Mark Vicars 13. A Multi-Families Album: Politics of Visibility of an Argentinean LGBTQ+ Family Association: Maximiliano Marentes 14. Navigating Legal and Cultural Challenges: An analysis of Turkish LGBTQ activism on social media: Mustafa Oz 15. African Queer Performances on social media as protest: The case of Zimbabwean TikTokers: Princess A Sibanda and Gibson Ncube 16. Bi the Way, We Exist!: Exploring Bisexual Affinities and Identity Performance on TikTok's Affective Archives: Samantha K. McEwan 17. Spiral of Silence: LGBTQ Struggles in Bangladesh: Shabnam Azim and Humaira Bilkis 18. A Jihad for Love: Narrative of Homosexuality, Islam, and Resistance: Nur E. Makbul 19. From Consumption to Creation: #Luimelia as Digital Activism: Elena Bonmati Gonzalvez and Kyle Cheesewright 20. Pulling the plug on Dr. Laura: Combining the conventional and unconventional in LGBTQ+ community protest: Bruce E. Drushel 21. Bible Belt Queers: Zines as both Placemaking and Protest: Jill Fredenburg 22. Queer Times, Queer Platforms: Club Quarantine and the Staging of Digital Protest: Jamil Fiorino-Habib 23. Queer Activism and empowerment on social media: A study based on Northern Province, Sri Lanka: Anutharsi Gabilan