Identities and Politics: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Lesbian and Gay Movement

Bernstein, Mary

doi:10.1215/01455532-26-3-531

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“…Gay activism began to move from the fight for civil rights to national and global campaigning for AIDS awareness (Bernstein, 2002). Thus narratives in the first half of the 80s decade included the emergence of AIDS, whereas the second half of the decade included narratives of protest, panic, and loss.…”

Section: Narrative Of Struggle and Successmentioning

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The rise and fall of gay: A cultural-historical approach to gay identity development

Weststrate

McLean

2010

Memory

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Research on identity development has paid relatively little attention to the development of marginalised identities such as those of gays and lesbians, whose isolation from the canonical narrative of sexuality may limit the available resources required for establishing a coherent identity. We examined these contested identities in relation to cultural-historical factors that may have played a role in shaping these identities over the past 50 years, and looked at how such factors have impacted the voicing and silencing of gay experiences. Participants (N=251) reported (1) a memory of a cultural event relevant to their sexuality, and (2) a self-defining memory about their sexuality. Those in older cohorts reported cultural memories centred on politics and other external events (e.g., Stonewall riots), and younger cohorts reported more personal memories (e.g., coming out), suggesting that homosexual identities have become less culturally defined, and instead more personally defined. Further, participants of older cohorts reported self-defining events that were predominantly from one private domain (e.g., sex). In contrast, younger participants reported a variety of self-defining events. These results suggest that cultural-historical factors play an important role in defining the developmental pathway of individuals, perhaps especially those who have marginalised identities.

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Section: Narrative Of Struggle and Successmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rise and fall of gay: A cultural-historical approach to gay identity development

Weststrate

McLean

2010

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“…Participation in collective action is, certainly in the long term, also a social process creating organizational bonds and affective ties with fellow members and participants. In-group positions not only facilitate the creation of shared solidarities and identities (ibid; Polletta and Jasper 2001;Klandermans 1997;Bernstein 2002), but also play an important role in in-group interactive evaluation and mobilization processes (Passy 2002). Clearly, once a person has found out how protest participation works, the threshold for further participation goes down.…”

Section: First-time Activism: Protest Normalization and Participationmentioning

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“…McAdam 1988;Passy 2002), as well as by strongly felt grievances and emotions (see for some extreme cases e.g. Walsh 1981;Jasper and Poulsen 1995;Walgrave and Verhulst 2006), and by strong collective identities (Klandermans 1997;Bernstein 2002;Melucci 1989). The idea that network embeddedness, mobilization and motivations are important explananda for protest participation is certainly not new.…”

Section: First-time Activism: Protest Normalization and Participationmentioning

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The First Time is the Hardest? A Cross-National and Cross-Issue Comparison of First-Time Protest Participants

Verhulst

Walgrave

2009

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The study aims to extend the existing knowledge about the dynamics of first-time participation in protest events. To tackle that puzzle we rely on extensive and innovative protest survey evidence covering 18 separate demonstrations in eight countries across nine different issues. On the individual level, age, motivation, and non-organizational mobilization appear to be consistent and robust predictors of first-timership. On the aggregate level, demonstrations staged just after or during a protest wave, large demonstrations, and demonstrations of old or new emotional movements are attended by a relatively larger share of first-timers. We conclude that it is thus the interplay of individual-and aggregate-level determinants that produces first-time participation.

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“…Dicho análisis confirma que nos encontramos ante un movimiento diferenciado del "movimiento de defensa de los derechos LGBTQ+ en países de mayoría musulmana" tal y como argumento a continuación. Si bien ambos pueden enmarcarse en el paraguas de los movimientos sociales LGBT (Bernstein, 2002), sólo el desarrollado en el marco de "Occidente" puede ser catalogado como activismo musulmán (Peace, 2015), ya que es el único de los dos movimientos vertebrado en torno al islam -entendido aquí en tanto que tradición religiosa-. Su carácter "queer" y "transnacional" -en oposición al movimiento anterior LGBTQ+ y étnico-racial-nacional-regional-emana de su participación en lo que Blackwood (2008) define como "discursos transnacionales de conocimiento queer", esto es, las formaciones, cursos especializados, seminarios, conferencias o encuentros de carácter internacional señalados con anterioridad 41 .…”

Section: Resistencias Musulmanas Queer: Desafiando Los Binarismosunclassified

Islamofobia queerizada y resistencias musulmanas queer en tiempos de homonacionalismo

Fernández

2018

REIM

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Resumen El presente artículo analiza el homonacionalismo desde el cuestionamiento a los discursos culturalistas dicotómicos que dicho fenómeno plantea. En primer lugar, se describen las vinculaciones históricas entre diversidad sexual y de género, racismo y neoliberalismo. A continuación, se aborda la emergencia de un proceso de queerización de la islamofobia nutrido por la instrumentalización neoliberal de los sujetos queer para promover la representación LGBTQ+fóbica del islam. Acto seguido, se evidencia cómo la relación entre las políticas LGBTQ+ transnacionales y la islamofobia queerizada ha provocado un rechazo hacia lo LGBTQ+ en el marco de los Estados arabo-islámicos postcoloniales. Finalmente, se ahonda en el análisis de las identidades musulmanas queer contemporáneas poniendo el foco en sus formas diferenciadas de resistencia frente a los discursos de oposición entre islam y diversidad sexo-genérica, tanto los provenientes de interpretaciones tradicionalistas del islam, como los islamófobos propios del homonacionalismo.

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Identities and Politics: Toward a Historical Understanding of the Lesbian and Gay Movement

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The rise and fall of gay: A cultural-historical approach to gay identity development

The rise and fall of gay: A cultural-historical approach to gay identity development

The First Time is the Hardest? A Cross-National and Cross-Issue Comparison of First-Time Protest Participants

Islamofobia queerizada y resistencias musulmanas queer en tiempos de homonacionalismo

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