Putting “Traditional Values” Into Practice: The Rise and Contestation of Anti-Homopropaganda Laws in Russia

Fighting “Gayropa”: Europeanization and Instrumentalization of LGBTI Rights in Ukrainian Public Debate

“…At the same time, in several acceding countries as well as in the European neighborhood, state-sponsored homophobia-a state strategy to use homophobia as a political instrument for nation-building and political power legitimation-came forward, reinforcing a clear-cut divide between East and West in Europe (Weiss and Bosia 2013, 2-3). Some of the countries went as far as banning or dispersing LGBTIrelated events, or in other ways interfering in the intimate spheres of gender and sexuality through law and governmental policies (Buyantueva and Shevtsova 2019; Essig and Kondakov 2019;Kuhar and Paternotte 2017;Wilkinson 2014). While legal changes related to LGBTI rights, as well as the political homophobia accompanying them, have been widely covered by many scholars, little has been done to address the societal impact of EU norms promotion in third countries that would include not only legal changes but also those of public and political elites (Slootmaeckers and O'Dwyer 2018, 23).…”

Academic Community and Policymaking in Russia

“…However, relative freedom of the 1990s and early 2000s has been decreasing since the political turmoil of 2011-2012 and following the 2014 Russian-Ukrainian conflict (Gel'man 2015). Greater state control in contemporary Russia-which encompasses, inter alia, the tendency to limit citizens' freedoms (Lasnier 2017;Tysiachniouk, Tulaeva, and Henry 2018;Wilkinson 2014), stifle protest activity (Bogush 2017;Shulman 2017;van der Vet 2017), and punish activists, journalists and bloggers (Roache 2017); increased interference in the world of mass media (Etkind 2015), art, and culture; 11 tighter surveillance of private entrepreneurship (Economist 2017); rising secrecy of national spending (Movchan 2017;Tkachov 2017;Tkachov and Makarov 2017)-all have impacted the broader sociopolitical setting in which academic knowledge production takes place.…”

The litmus test of pride: analysing the emergence of the Belgrade “Ghost” pride in the context of EU accession

“…LGBT rights, depending on a country's orientation. Indeed, it has been argued that in those countries resisting the homonationalist interpretation of modernity, the international politicisation of LGBT rights has caused backlashes (Weiss and Bosia 2013;Wilkinson 2014). The anti-gay propaganda laws in Russia and the so-called 'Kill the Gays Bill' in Uganda are only two examples in which the international push for LGBT rights has reduced the space for LGBT activism in the domestic arena.…”