LGBTI & Queer Studies | Coming Soon

Focused on understanding and analyzing LGBTQ activism and protest globally, this edited collection brings together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ protests and their impact. - This edited collection provides an accessible introduction to global LGBTQ activism for both students and scholars. - Examines the LGBTQ protest ecology in countries including Uganda, Thailand, Bangladesh, China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hungary, the USA, Canada, and the UK; circling the global south as well as the global north. - Provides important insights into how social media and different technical platforms provide spaces for self-expression and protest and encourages advocacy and empowerment for LGBTQ movements and populations in different countries as well as emphasising the differences and similarities between specific national contexts. Focused on understanding and analyzing LGBTQ activism and protest globally, this edited collection brings together voices from different parts of the world to examine LGBTQ protests and their impact.Through the lens of media, culture, and sociopolitical structures, this collection highlights how cultural and technical factors like the emergence of social media and other digital platforms have impacted LGBTQ activism. This book draws on studies from countries as varied as Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Morocco, China, and the US. The contributions provide important insight into how social media and digital platforms have provided space for self-expression and protest and encouraged advocacy and empowerment for LGBTQ movements. It also examines the diversity and similarities between different national contexts and the various obstacles faced, while spotlighting countries that are traditionally understudied in Western academia, in an important step toward decolonizing research. Each chapter, through the voices of activists and media scholars, moves beyond an oversimplified examination of queer protests to show, in rich detail, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer protests throughout the globe.This book is suitable for media, communication, and cultural studies students; researchers; academics; and LGBTQ activists, as well as students and scholars from related academic disciplines.

September 2023