Changing families and communities: an LGBT contribution to an alternative development path |
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Authors: | Peter Drucker |
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Affiliation: | International Institute for Research and Education , Walenburgerweg 131c, Rotterdam, 3039, AH, Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Until now, most discussions on the place of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) people in global civil society have focused on their access to citizenship, rather than their socio-economic rights and role in development processes. This article argues that an alternative vision of development should challenge heteronormative family structures; build alternative, queer communities; wage activist, sexually emancipatory campaigns on concrete social issues (as the Treatment Action Campaign has done on HIV and AIDS in South Africa); and rethink existing models of democratic participation. The author emphasises the paradoxes of LGBT organisation in the context of neo-liberalism and globalisation, with an eye toward queering, or challenging heteronormativity in, global social-justice movements. |
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Keywords: | Civil Society Gender and Diversity Rights |
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