The Emerging LGBTI Rights Challenge to Transitional Justice in Latin America

Bueno-Hansen, Pascha

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“…The painting’s displacement spatially reiterates a sustained disjuncture between an expanded sexual citizenship under the law and the articulation of those rights in everyday spaces and interactions. Apitatán’s mural controversy thus attends “to the current paradox between the growing recognition of LGBTI rights and virulent homophobia and transphobia” by illuminating how these contradictions persist and coexist within the urban geography (Bueno-Hansen, 2018: 137).…”

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“…Such openings on paper, however, clashed with a sustained conservatism on the ground to produce a deeply “ambivalent form of state inclusion for queer politics” (Lind and Keating, 2013: 516). Pascha Bueno-Hansen reminds us that a formal recognition of LGBTQ equality under Ecuadorian law “has not translated into everyday lived experience, as police continue to mistreat, discriminate against, detain and torture LGBTI individuals,” and gender and sexual minorities still face prejudice within the broader cultural sphere (2018: 130). This incongruity emerges acutely within the realm of statecraft.…”

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“…These encoded erasures are very much intentional: “That a long historical silence around dissident sexualities has existed until this day is not a mere oversight, for it has been a persistent site of production of subjectivities and behaviours that have been passed down as fact” (López and Campuzano, 2013: 16). This analysis contributes to a decolonial critique of entrenched patterns of moral condemnation against gender and sexual minorities in Latin America by “exposing the colonial ontological underpinnings of violence and erasure that endure to the present” (Bueno-Hansen, 2018: 141). Opening urban visuality to the experiences and expressions of other subjectivities, to queerness, challenges the hegemony of a devout conservativism and the foundational narratives that sustain masculinist and patriarchal values as societal norms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 3 LGBTI – the ‘I’ standing for Intersex – is the term typically used in Latin American contexts (Bueno-Hansen 2018: 127); I retain this spelling where it appears in original sources.…”

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“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador

Morrison

2022

Environ Plan D

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Halted by the police, repeatedly defaced, and ultimately erased, the mural El Amor No Tiene Género (Love Has No Gender) lasted less than one week on the streets of Quito before it disappeared under a layer of whitewash in July 2019. The image – a trio of kissing couples – was painted by local street artist Apitatán to celebrate Ecuador’s landmark approval of marriage equality. Its destruction inspired widespread media coverage, direct-action activism, and institutional support for the mural which culminated in its revival two months later. This article investigates what the double life of Apitatán’s mural reveals about the politics of visibility in Quito at a critical moment of consolidating political rights for the country’s LGBTQ community. Drawing on digital ethnography and storytelling methods, I weave together these two visibility disputes – about the mural and about queer love – to illustrate how public visibility is always contingent. To do so, my analysis explores the interplay between erasure and policing practices to enforce conditions of visibility within the urban environment.

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“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador

Morrison

2022

Environ Plan D

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“…The UN has defined transitional justice as 'the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society's attempts to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation' 6 . The political opportunity embedded in transitional justice processes and mechanisms occurs temporarily due to the crisis of legitimacy and upheaval caused by war (Bueno-Hansen, 2018). Transition might only be a short and fleeting momenttherefore, it is essential to incorporate a gender dimension in transitional justice processes and mechanisms (Nelaeva & Sidorova, 2019).…”

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Political Empowerment of Women, Girls and LGBTQ+ People: Post-conflict Opportunities

Haider¹

2022

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The instability and upheaval of violent conflict can break down patriarchal structures, challenge traditional gender norms and open up new roles and spaces for collective agency of women, sexual and gender minorities (SGM), and other marginalised groups (Yadav, 2021; Myrittinen & Daigle, 2017). A recent study on the gendered implications of civil war finds that countries recovering from ‘major civil war’ experience substantial improvements in women’s civil liberties and political participation—complementary aspects of political empowerment (Bakken & Bahaug, 2020). This rapid literature review explores the openings that conflict and post-conflict settings can create for the development of political empowerment of women and LGBTQ+ communities—as well as challenges. Drawing primarily on a range of academic, non-governmental organisation (NGO), and practitioner literature, it explores conflict-affected settings from around the world. There was limited literature available on experience from Ukraine (which was of interest for this report); and on specific opportunities at the level of local administrations. In addition, the available literature on empowerment of LGBTQ+ communities was much less than that available for women’s empowerment. The literature also focused on women, with an absence of information on girls. It is important to note that while much of the literature speaks to women in society as a whole, there are various intersectionalities (e.g. class, race, ethnicity, religion, age, disability, rural/urban etc.) that can produce varying treatment and degrees of empowerment of women. Several examples are noted within the report.

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LGBTQ Perspectives in Peacebuilding

Hagen¹

2020

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Emerging LGBTI Rights Challenge to Transitional Justice in Latin America

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“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador

“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador

Political Empowerment of Women, Girls and LGBTQ+ People: Post-conflict Opportunities

LGBTQ Perspectives in Peacebuilding

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