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INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD

About ILGA World – the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn - is a worldwi feratn of more than 1,700 anisatns om over 160 untri and terrori mpaigng for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and tersex human rights. We want a world where the human rights of all are rpected and where everyone n live equaly and * the gay international *

Through their ght relatnship wh the Cuban ernment, which reprented them as a cultural imperialist offensive agast the newly formed Communist state, the gay liberatnists veloped a dialectil nceptn of the ternatnal that acknowledged the differential nstutn of sexual life wh specific ntexts, yet sought to reveal the ternatnal systems of power that produce and regulate those seemgly distct sexual formatns across ternatnal divis.

THE MYTH OF THE GAY INTERNATNAL

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A través su tensa relación n el gobierno cubano, que los reprentaba o una ofensiva cultural imperialista ntra el recién formado tado unista, los liberador homosexual sarrollaron una ncepción dialécti lo ternacnal que renocía la nstución diferencial la vida sexual ntro ntextos pecífis, pero que trataba revelar los sistemas ternacnal por que producen y regulan as formacn sexual aparentemente disttas a través las divisn ternacnal.

Dans le dre lrs relatns tendu avec le gouvernement cuba, qui l représenta me une offensive culturelle impérialiste ntre l’État muniste nouvellement formé, l libératnnist gays ont développé une nceptn dialectique l'ternatnal qui rennaissa la nstutn différentielle la vie sexuelle dans s ntext spécifiqu tout en cherchant à révéler l systèm ternatnx pouvoir qui produisaient et régulaient c formatns sexuell apparemment distct -là s divisns ternatnal.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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The spread of mass media and munitns has sce enabled the creatn of virtual muni, a global nsumer culture has universalized ias of sirabily, and transnatnal stggl for sexual rights have achieved the ternatnal regnn and visibily of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Intersex (LGBTI) terdisciplary and expandg amic fields, such as transnatnal sexualy studi (TSS) and queer ternatnal relatns (QIR), have emerged to addrs the role of sexualy wh the procs of globalizatn. A historil materialist mo of analysis expounds the divisn of the ternatnal to the distct spher of Wt/non-Wt, North/South, or re/periphery as historilly nstuted and found on palist social fd such a historil materialist approach to theorizg sexualy and the ternatnal wh the tellectual wrgs and transnatnal activi of the gay liberatn movement.

QUEERG THE ‘GLOBAL GAY’: HOW TRANSNATNAL LGBT LANGUAGE DISPTS THE GLOBAL/LOL BARY

What are the Bt LGBTQ Organizatns (Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer) the world? The plete LGBT Organizatn Rourc. * the gay international *

This nceptn of the ternatnal acknowledged the differential nstutn of homosexual life wh specific ntexts, yet sought to reveal the ternatnal systems of power that produce and regulate those seemgly disparate, discrete, and disntuo sexual formatns across divisns of the ternatnal.

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

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” The Gay Internatnal's ostensible liberatn project is, short, an imperialist unrtakg that is “stroyg social and sexual nfiguratns of sire” the non-Wt through the imposn of a Wtern sexual epistemology and cg non-Wtern stat to vlence agast those who display a Wternized inty of gayns (Massad 2002, 385) nceptn of the ternatnal is at work Joseph Massad's notn of the “Gay Internatnal”? Agast Massad's reprentatn of postlonial subjects who intify as “gay” as “victims of false nscns or unwtg agents of Empire, ” Nika Dhawan (2016, 60) matas that Wtern sexual norms and inti are appropriated, rignified, and rearticulated through cross-cultural enunters and exchang.

To name but a few notable exampl, Mark McLelland (2000) has highlighted the signifint differenc between the associatns of the term “gay” wh Japan and the English-speakg world, Peter Jackson (2001) has mapped the variegated ways which foreign sexual disurs have been selectively and strategilly appropriated wh Asian ntexts toward the creatn of new sexual cultur, Jasbir Puar (2001) has shown how the effects of globalizatn Tridad have revealed the limed pacy of Wtern sexual disurs to travel transnatnally, and Katie Kg (2002) has nsired the polil implitns of lol mistranslatns of the term “lbian. In an exploratn of the (dis-)affiliatns between Filipo gay men and the domant rhetoric of “Stonewall, ” Manalansan (1995, 437–38) fds that the US lbian and gay movement and s attendant narrativ of g out and the closet “do not follow a sgle axis om center to periphery. Not dissiar to pal's enforcement of a differentiatn between the public and private spher, which is part based upon a genred divisn of labor, the gay liberatnists unrstood imperialism's enforcement of the differentiatns re/periphery and Wt/non-Wt to be based part on a sexual what regard is a dualistic nceptn of the ternatnal based on a sexual divisn?

The most prehensive theoretil elaboratns of gay liberatnism, Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Opprsn and Liberatn and Mar Mieli's Towards a Gay Communism, brg this dialectil relatn between the state's persecutn of homosexuals and the emergence of a policized gay movement to the Altman (2012, xi) is an Atralian polil scientist who beme part of the emergg US gay liberatn movement durg his brief stay New York Cy the early seventi. ” This quote illtrat that the term “gay” rried a cidly future-orientated qualy, vokg a utopian society where the reprsn of gay sire had been the polil dimensn of the term “gay, ” as articulated by the liberatnists, serly has signifint implitns for how we unrstand var aspects of gay liberatn history. If “gay” implied a challenge to “the very fns and martns that society has created” (Altman 2012 [1971], 244)—and therefore volved a transformatn of nscns that would supplant the mdset of inty altogether—then “g out” is more accurately unrstood as a policizatn of homosexualy than as an sentializatn of homosexualy.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * the gay international *

This unrstandg of the ternatnal as -extensive wh imperialist systems of social anizatn, as well as the ternal movements for their superssn, rewr as a se of polics rather than a mere scriptive tegory or a pre-nstuted terra on which polics plays gay liberatn movement largely embraced this analysis of the ternatnal.

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