Conceptual Tools for a Decolonising, Intersectional, Transnational LGBT Activism

Abstract

Farmer uses this chapter to examine the key conceptual terms that are deployed in the analysis of the book to produce an argument for an intersectional, decolonial approach to transnational LGBT activism. Farmer examines literature concerned with NGOs and transnational advocacy movements to foreground the focus on NGOs and their participation in transnational networks throughout the book. Also, given the focus on legacies of colonialism and the perpetuation of coloniality in international relations, the chapter defines these terms, drawing on postcolonialism and decoloniality to highlight how European modernity/coloniality presents challenges for contemporary transnational LGBT activism. The chapter also engages with concepts that interrogate the intersections of nationalism, sexuality, gender and race: heteronormativity, homonormativity, heteronationalism and homonationalism, and how they are used to critique contemporary intersections in international relations. Farmer also draws from literatures engaged with transnational solidarity and intersectionality to highlight the limitations and opportunities for LGBT solidarity across borders.