Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe and the Americas
Collaboration, Intervention and Activism since 1940
Laura A. Belmonte (Anthology Editor) , Peter Edelberg (Anthology Editor) , Víctor M. Macías-González (Anthology Editor)
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Transnational LGBTQ+ Networks in Europe and the Americas
Collaboration, Intervention and Activism since 1940
Laura A. Belmonte (Anthology Editor) , Peter Edelberg (Anthology Editor) , Víctor M. Macías-González (Anthology Editor)
- Open Access
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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.
Table of Contents
1. It's not Best in the West: Warsaw Homoerots in Search of a Safe Haven across 1930s Europe, Kamil Karczewski (European University Institute, Italy)
2. Dynamics of Liberation: A Transnational Look at the Successes of the Scandinavian LGBT+ Movement, Peter Edelberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
3. From World War to Global Homophobia: How Anti-Gay Politics Spread Transnationally, Wannes Dupont (University of Edinburgh, UK)
4. Queer Archiving and Transnational Collections in the Netherlands, 1970-2000, Noah Little (Leiden University, Netherlands)
5. Transnational Homophile Publications in Mexico, 1950s-1960s, Víctor M. Macías-González (The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA)
6. 'I am for sale for 500 kroner': Race and Fantasy in European Homoerotica, 1967-77, Andrew DJ Shield (Leiden University, Netherlands)
7. Failed Projects and Lonely Hearts: Der Kreis and the Italian Homophiles, Alessio Ponzio ( MacEwan University, Canada)
8. Homophile Travel: Queer Heuristic, Cold War Citizenship, and the Eurocentric Imagination, David S. Churchill (University of Manitoba, Canada)
9. Transnational AIDS Activism an the Collaboration between Homosexual Rights Organizations in Scandinavia, 1981-1994, Jacob Preene (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
10. Telling and understanding the homosexual liberated self, 1970-1974, Riccardo Bulgarelli (European University Institute, Italy)
11. Martina Navratilova: Sport, Celebrity, and Advocacy, 1975-2020, Laura A. Belmonte (Virginia Tech, USA)
12. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Australian Trans Activists and Transnational Inspirations before the Internet, Noah Riseman and Julie Peters (Australian Catholic University and Columbia University, USA)
13. International Marriage Tourism, Activism, and the Global Quest for Canadian Same Sex Marriages, Valerie J. Korinek (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
14. Global Sisterhood is a Myth: Forging Transnational Lesbian Networks at the 1986 ILIS Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Hannah Leffingwell (The New School, USA)
15. Political, Ethical, and Methodological Concerns in the Digital Humanities: Personal Reflections on the Robert Roth Papers and Transnational Queer Networks, (Javier Fernández Galeano and Santiago Joaquín Insausti (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Conclusion, 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)
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350455368 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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