Transnational ways of belonging and queer ways of being. Exploring transnationalism through the trajectories of the rainbow flag

Klapeer, Christine M.; Laskar, Pia

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2018.1507958

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“…According to these critics, the flag and the Pride parades have become normalised, mainstreamed, and thus harmless. It is used by capitalist market-driven businesses and cities in order to sell their products and services (Klapeer and Laskar 2018;Peterson et al 2018), by nations to wash away the country's image of being homophobic, so-called pinkwashing, and to build an image of the nation as modern and tolerant, so-called homonationalism (Puar 2007;Alm and Martinsson 2016;Laskar et al 2016). It also functions as a tool for attempts by right-wing groups to dismiss immigrants and refugees, accusing them of being backwards and intolerant, often combined with statements about Islam (Brown 2009;Puar 2007).…”

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Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019

Wasshede

2020

Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality

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In spite of the rainbow flag’s importance as a symbol for transnational queer belonging and its meanings for the survival of queers all over the world, much critical queer Anglo-Saxon research and activism concerning the rainbow flag and the celebration of Pride claims that it has lost its radical potential through processes of normalisation, mainstreaming, homonationalism and commercialisation. In order to address other queer political issues, alternative Pride events are organized in parallel with conventional Pride celebrations. This chapter will discuss two Pride events held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2019, Reclaim Pride and Öckerö Pride, drawing on auto-ethnographic methods. It will reflect on two connected questions: What meanings, emotions, actions and temporalities are (re)produced as a result of the relationship between the events, the rainbow flag, the concept of Pride and the activists/participants—including the author? In what ways do the rainbow flag and the concept of Pride work as co-producers of belongings as well as disbelongings—and how does the author’s position as a Swedish, middle-class, white, lesbian, feminist, mother, former activist and now sociologist affect her feelings of belonging and disbelonging? It is shown that the rainbow flag is a very topical and heated cultural artefact in the Swedish political arena, in which racism, homophobia and Islamophobia are growing. The author’s experiences and emotions at the two Pride events reflect the ambivalent struggle that takes place at the borders of belonging and disbelonging. Temporality and space are important aspects of the contextualisation that needs to be applied in order to grasp the different effects that processes of inclusion and exclusion have on queer people in different places and situations.

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Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019

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2020

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“…In the cultural facemask condition, we exposed participants to individuals wearing a facemask with the pride flag. The pride flag is a symbol of societal and communal belongingness (Klapeer & Laskar, 2018; Matsick et al, 2020), which represents a meaningful social identity to those who identify as gay or lesbian (Wolowic et al, 2017). In addition to the high MS condition, we included a neutral control condition, which enabled us to examine whether facemask exposure effects occur in the absence of death reminders.…”

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Can culture beat Covid‐19? Evidence that exposure to facemasks with cultural symbols increases solidarity

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Limbu

2022

British J Social Psychol

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“…It has no fixed meaning in itself but, as Wasshede (2019: 148) notes, it is "involved in co-productions of meaning/reality/life together with other agents, such as human beings, artefacts, nature, symbols, etc". Even though several critics argue that the flag and Pride parades have become normalised, mainstream and are thus harmless (see, for example, Klapeer & Laskar 2018;Peterson, Wahlström & Wennerhag 2018), they still carry a symbolic meaning and have huge impact in many contexts. Wasshede (2019: 148) continues:…”

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2022

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Experiences of being LGBTQ1 within Swedish free-church environments have not been highlighted to any great extent. In the autumn of 2020, I participated, as an observing researcher, in a study group consisting of LGBTQ persons and LGBTQ allies focusing on LGBTQ in the Christian free-church environment. The discussions took their point of departure in the question how we ensure that congregations are a welcoming and safe place for LGBTQ people. This article is based on the conversations that took place during these meetings. In the articleI will examine how power relations and tensions were described and investigate how LGBTQ persons and their allies handle and challenge them. The results of the investigation show that free-church contexts are permeated with hegemonic heteronormativity, the structural power of which operates both visibly and covertly. The participants talk about unlivable compromises, emanating from membership always being conditional and subject to certain terms for LGBTQ persons. The participants narrated their experiences, ranging from subtle com- ments or silences to ostracism and exclusion. All participants testified to the existence of various forms of conversion efforts in contemporary free church environments and recounted examples of how they had been pressured in prayer and pastoral care and conversations in which they had been silenced or told that it is possible to change one’s sexual orientation or identity.

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Transnational ways of belonging and queer ways of being. Exploring transnationalism through the trajectories of the rainbow flag

Cited by 26 publications

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Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019

Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019

Can culture beat Covid‐19? Evidence that exposure to facemasks with cultural symbols increases solidarity

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