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Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe and the Americas

Collaboration, Intervention and Activism since 1920

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Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe and the Americas

Collaboration, Intervention and Activism since 1920

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Enriching our understanding of transnational networks and advocacy forged and sustained by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, this open access collection offers keen insights into sites and expressions of LGBTQ+ identity and community, highlights transnational efforts to challenge homophobia and assesses why such efforts have succeeded in some places and failed in others.

Exploring the complexity of transnational processes, contributors question and contextualize how groups outside the North Atlantic, English-speaking, and Germanic cultural spheres accessed, mediated, and appropriated Anglo-American, Canadian, Swiss, and Scandinavian queer liberationist ideologies and practices. Tracing the ways in which queer ideas, activists and publications followed traditional flows of knowledge and trade through established regional and colonial circuits it shows how ideas, people, forms of resistance and activism flowed back and forth between countries and places at different times. Taking relations between countries, places and groups as its point of departure, this book challenges the methodological nationalism that is so common in this field, showing how LGBTQ+ movements developed in transnational virtual and practical networks, complicating progress narratives and illustrating how and why moves toward LGBT+ equality are incremental and sometimes reversed.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Virginia Tech, USA.

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Introduction to Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific: Collaboration, Intervention and Activism Since 1920, Laura A. Belmonte, Peter Edelberg, and Víctor M. Macías-González (Virginia Tech, USA, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA)

Part I: Print Culture and the Transmittal and Movement of Homophile and Homosexual Liberation

1. Italy and the “Homophile International:” The Transnational Activism of Bernardino del Boca in the 1950s, Alessio Ponzio (MacEwan University, Canada)
2. Transnational Homophile Publications in Mexico, 1950s-1960s: Readers, Translators, and Publishers, Víctor M. Macías-González (The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA)
3. Homophile Travel: Cold War Citizenship, and the Queer Eurocentric Imagination, David S. Churchill (University of Manitoba, Canada)
4. “I am for sale for 500 kroner:” Race and Power in Danish Homoerotica, 1969-75, Andrew DJ Shield (Leiden University, Netherlands)

Part II: Development of Second Wave Activist Organizations

5. Letting the Skeletons Come Out: Gendered and Other Frictions in Transnational Organizing for Gay and Lesbian Rights, 1970-1980, Pia Laskar (Stockholm University, Sweden)
6. “Global Sisterhood is a Myth:” Forging Transnational Lesbian Networks at the 1986 ILIS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Hannah Leffingwell (The New School, USA)
7. Linking Transnationalism, Regionalism, and a Politics of “Intercultural” Solidarity in Dutch Lesbian Archival Practices, 1970s-1990s, Noah Littel (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Noah Littel (Leiden University, Netherlands)
8. Moving Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Transnationalizing the Historiography of Danish LGBTQ+ Activism, Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
9. Transnational AIDS Activism and the Collaboration between Homosexual Rights Organizations in Scandinavia, 1981-1994, Jacob Preene (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
10. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Australian Trans Activists and Transnational Inspirations before the Internet, Noah Riseman (Australian Catholic University) and Julie Peters (Columbia University, USA)

Part III: Communities of Activism over the Twentieth Century

11. Forensic Channels: Transnational Connections in the Postwar Concern with Homosexuality in Western Europe, Wannes Dupont (University of Edinburgh, UK)
12. Political, Ethical, and Methodological Concerns in the Digital Humanities: Personal Reflections on the Robert Roth Papers and Transnational Queer Networks, Javier Fernández Galeano (Universitat de València) and Santiago Joaquín Insausti (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)
13. Martina Navratilova: A Study in Transnational Sport, Celebrity, and Advocacy, Laura A. Belmonte (Virginia Tech, USA)
14. Queer Connections Between Estonia and Finland: Activism, Everyday Interaction, Leather Brotherhood, and Lesbian sisterhood, 1980s and 1990s, Rebeka Põldsam (University of Tartu, Estonia), Riikka Taavetti (University of Turku, Finland) and Andreas Kalkun (Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia)
15. It's not Best in the West: Warsaw Homoerots in Search of a Safe Haven across 1930s Europe. A Case Study of Interwar Queer Transnational Networks, Kamil Karczewski (European University Institute, Italy)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 10 Dec 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 320
ISBN 9781350455368
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 11 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Laura A. Belmonte

Laura Belmonte is Dean of the Virginia Tech Colle…

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Peter Edelberg

Peter N. Edelberg is Teaching Associate Professor…

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Víctor M. Macías-González

Víctor M. Macías-González is Professor of History…

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