‘Tory-normativity’ and gay rights advocacy in the British Conservative Party since the 1950s

Abstract

Tory-Normativity" and Gay Rights Advocacy in the British Conservative Party since the 1950s Gay rights advocacy in the Conservative party since the 1950s played-down its difference from Conservative beliefs by emphasising pragmatism over emancipation; discretion over celebration; and responsibility over rights. This positioning was allied to a construction of gay men and women in the image of the idealised conservative citizen: lawabiding, entrepreneurial, and ultimately familial-a process I label "Tory-normativity". Tory-normativity introduced gay rights advocacy into the party in an acceptable form, and consequently caused party policy to develop. Ultimately, the construction of Tory-normativity has been used to depoliticise gay identity: initially gay men, and then from the 2000s onwards, gay men and women.

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“…De hecho, la incorporación y normalización de las identidades LGBTIQ+ en el espectro de la derecha se lleva produciendo desde los 70' . Desde ese periodo existen asociaciones de personas gays conservadoras, como el Log Cabin Republicans en Estados Unidos o el Conservative Group for Homosexual Equality (CGHE), que apoyan o forman parte de partidos liberales, tradicionalistas y de derechas (Duggan, 2002;Monahan, 2019). También existen otros procesos que vinculan la lógica capitalista-imperialista y el reconocimiento de algunos derechos de estos colectivos, como el llamado capitalismo rosa, capitalismo arcoíris, gaycapitalismo o pinkwashig (Drucker, 2015: 279-304).…”