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Contents:
- “WE ARE NOT GAYS”: REGIME PRERVATN AND THE POLICIZATN OF INTY MUGABE’S ZIMBABWE
- ZIMBABWEAN UPLE MAND GAY RIGHTS
- CULTURE, LAW, AND DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY AND LBIAN LEARNERS ZIMBABWE
- FOR GAY ZIMBABWEANS, A DIFFICULT POLIL CLIMATE
“WE ARE NOT GAYS”: REGIME PRERVATN AND THE POLICIZATN OF INTY MUGABE’S ZIMBABWE
“We Are Not Gays”: Regime Prervatn and the Policizatn of Inty Mugabe’s Zimbabwe - Volume 65 Issue 3 * gay zimbabweans *
The marriage bill that has brought up the ncept of civil partnerships has been precise fg as a relatnship between a man and a woman term on s own beg terpreted ternatnally to mean people same sex relatnships has ed the muny and bet to want to remove notg that bee has a gay ternatnal terpretatn th do not uphold the untri moral standards. Frossard Sgy fills this gap wh a thorough examatn of the strategi of policized homophobia ployed by the Robert Mugabe regime, their nnectn to hegemonic masculy, the liberatn war, and land qutns, and the ndns which led them to lose their potency and ultimately fail to save Mugabe om mountg domtic challeng.
ZIMBABWEAN UPLE MAND GAY RIGHTS
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Frossard Sgy preenche ta lacuna através uma análise exstiva das tratégias polização da homofobia utilizadas pelo regime Robert Mugabe, a sua relação a masculida hegemóni, a guerra libertação e os problemas da terra, bem o as circunstâncias que levaram a que persse eficácia e abasse por não nseguir proteger Mugabe face aos crcent safs ternos. The, as well as other important parts of the prepared speech, actually reflected a recurrg theme of Zimbabwean polil disurse, the ia that Print Mugabe and his party (the Zimbabwe Ain Natnal Unn-Patrtic Front [ZANU-PF]) stood as a bulwark of antilonialism agast the Wt’s imperialist attacks, which clud the so-lled promotn of homosexualy.
CULTURE, LAW, AND DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY AND LBIAN LEARNERS ZIMBABWE
This article th argu two pots: first that, buildg upon a nceptn of Zimbabwean inty that he had long worked to fe, 2015 Print Mugabe attempted to leverage a growg clash of disurs around homosexualy Ai to strengthen his posn natnal and regnal polics at a time of domtic crisis. Such a thick scriptn is necsary to fully unrstand not only the dynamics and the potency of policized homophobia Zimbabwe, but also the erosn of s power, and to do jtice to the historil specifici of the se as well as to the plexy of policized homophobia as a state strategy. Though there have been some misgivgs related to the e of homophobia as overly foced on fear and elidg lol specifici (van Klken & Chando Reference van Klken and Chando2016; Thoron Reference Thoron2014), most of the recent lerature begs wh the ia of gog beyond personal hostily to foc on the strategic e of the negative meangs associated wh same-sex sexuali by actors seekg to achieve polil goals—gog beyond the notn of fear self to the parameters of s stmentalizatn (Currier Reference Currier2010; McKay & Angotti Reference McKay and Angotti2016; Serrano-Amaya Reference Serrano-Amaya2018).
FOR GAY ZIMBABWEANS, A DIFFICULT POLIL CLIMATE
This analysis th follows Ashley Currier g the term “policized homophobia” to bt reflect the ia of a purposive strategy leveraged agast multiple forms of opposn, what she terms a liberately activated public spectacle, but a siar ncept of purposeful state strategy n be found unr the umbrella of polil homophobia most works on the topic (Bosia & Weiss Reference Bosia and Weiss2013; Currier Reference Currier2018; McKay & Angotti Reference McKay and Angotti2016).