Global LGBTQ Activism

Social Media, Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms

Paromita Pain

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032498577
• eBook ISBN: 9781000963908
• Topic: Sozialwissenschaften
• Subtopic: LGBT-Studien

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.

Through the lens of media, culture, and sociopolitical structures, this collection highlights how cultural and technical factors like the emergence of social media and other digital platforms have impacted LGBTQ activism. This book draws on studies from countries as varied as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Morocco, China, and the US. The contributions provide important insight into how social media and digital platforms have provided space for self-expression and protest and encouraged advocacy and empowerment for LGBTQ movements. It also examines the diversity and similarities between different national contexts and the various obstacles faced, while spotlighting countries that are traditionally understudied in Western academia, in an important step toward decolonizing research. Each chapter, through the voices of activists and media scholars, moves beyond an oversimplified examination of queer protests to show, in rich detail, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer protests throughout the globe.

This book is suitable for media, communication, and cultural studies students; researchers; academics; and LGBTQ activists, as well as students and scholars from related academic disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 LGBTIQ+ causes and connective action: actors, issues, support, and frames in online petitions
• 2 The voice of the voiceless: queerphobic statism and queer youth advocacy in China
• 3 Western funding and its consequences for the Ugandan LGBT+ rights struggle – negotiating community dynamics and activism during Pride 2022
• 4 Orientalist narratives and subversive activism in the lead-up to the 2022 World Cup
• 5 Genealogy of the homosexual pejorative
• 6 Western influences, Eastern realities: LGBTQ activism in Hungary
• 7 #Queer_Revolution_Morocco: A disoriented Moroccan (counter-)archive from the eyes of its queers
• 8 Pakikipagkapwa in the LGBTQIA+ movement for the enactment of the SOGIE Equality Bill
• 9 We don’t talk about homos: queer activism and the fight to make #DisneySayGay
• 10 The LGBTQ activist on social media: analyzing LGBTQ activism online in India and Taiwan
• 11 LGBTQ activism to counter “Don’t Say Gay,” trans athlete bans and other attacks on affirming education in US public schools
• 12 Disrupting the simulacrum of normalcy: queer online activism and protest in Thailand
• 13 A multi-families album: politics of visibility of an Argentinean LGBTQ+ family association
• 14 Navigating legal and cultural challenges: an analysis of Turkish LGBTQ activism on social media
• 15 African queer performances on social media as protest: the case of Zimbabwean TikTokers
• 16 Assessing the digital activism of LGBTQ community in India through an intersectional framework
• 17 Bi the way, we exist!: Exploring bisexual affinities and identity performance on TikTok’s affective archives
• 18 Spiral of silence: LGBTQ struggles in Bangladesh
• 19 A Jihad for Love: narrative of homosexuality, Islam, and resistance
• 20 From consumption to creation: #Luimelia as digital activism
• 21 Pulling the plug on Dr. Laura: combining the conventional and unconventional in LGBTQ+ community protest
• 22 Bible Belt Queers: zines as both placemaking and protest
• 23 Queer times, queer platforms: club quarantine and the staging of digital protest
• 24 Queer activism and empowerment on social media: a study based on Northern Province, Sri Lanka
• Index