Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intergovernmental Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations: The Development of an International Approach to LGBT Issues / Erin Aylward -- Europe and LGBT Rights: A Conflicted Relationship / Phillip Ayoub, David Paternotte -- LGBT Rights in the Former Soviet Union: The Evolution of Hypervisibility / Cai Wilkinson -- LGBTQ Politics in Anglo-American Democracies / Miriam Smith -- The Expansion of LGBT Rights in Latin America and the Backlash / Javier Corrales -- LGBT Rights, Sexual Citizenship, and Blacklighting in the Anglophone Caribbean: What Do Queers Want, What Does Colonialism Need? / Cornel Grey, Nikoli A. Attai -- The State of Being LGBT in the Age of Reaction: Post-2011 Visibility and Repression in the Middle East and North Africa / Mehmet Sinan Birdal -- Heretical Falsification and the Challenge of Theorizing LGBT Politics from the South / S. N. Nyeck -- LGBT Politics in South Asia: Ground Rules, Underground Movements / Ahmad Qais Munhazim -- Global Norms, State Regulations, and Local Activism: Marriage Equality and Same-Sex Partnership, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Rights in Japan and Hong Kong / Diana Khor, Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Saori Kamano -- What Makes LGBT Sexualities Political? Understanding Oppression in Sociological, Historical, and Cultural Contexts / Momin Rahman -- Beyond Belief? The Rapid Expansion of Same-Sex Marriage / Julie Hollar -- Making LGBT Rights into Human Rights / Anthony J. Langlois -- Global Sexual Diversity Politics and the Trouble with LGBT Rights / Michael J. Bosia -- Decolonizing Indigenous Sexualities: Between Erasure and Resurgence / Manuela L. Picq -- Gender Identity and Transgender Rights in Global Perspective / Elijah Adiv Edelman -- Learning Sexuality and Gender: Issues in Childhood Education Transnationally / Ryan R. Thoreson -- The Global HIV/AIDS and LGBT Movements / Jeremy Youde -- Queer Muslim Challenges to the Internationalization of LGBT Rights: Decolonizing International Relations Methodology through Intersectionality / Momin Rahman -- Research on Diversity in Sexual Identities: Beyond Binaries / Pawan Singh -- Early Advocacy for the Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity / David Rayside -- Introduction: Sexual and Gender Diversity Politics 50 Years after Stonewall / Michael J. Bosia -- Academia versus Activism / Dennis Altman -- Visibility in Global Queer Politics / Emil Edenborg -- Africa and the Contestation of Sexual and Gender Diversity: Imperial and Contemporary Regulation / Monica Tabengwa, Matthew Waites -- Global LGBT Politics at Scale: Memory and Rights in Early Twenty-First Century Peru / Justin Perez -- Queering Scholarship? LGBT Politics as an Analytical Challenge for Political Science and International Relations / Markus Thiel -- Political Economy, Sexuality, and Intimacy / Barry Adam -- Debating Imperial Violence and the Production of Sexualities / Jacqueline Stevens, V Varun Chaudhry.

This Handbook contains chapters on the struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities around the world, with a substantial number of contributions from the Global South. It contextualizes the regional case studies within relevant theoretical frameworks from the sociology of sexualities, critical race studies, postcolonialism, indigenous theories, social movement theory, and international relations theory. Therefore, it provides readers with up-to-date empirical material as well as various ways of assessing the analytical significance, commonalities, and differences of global LGBT politics. As such, the chapters combine to present an overall interdisciplinary and critical perspective on contemporary LGBT politics.

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