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Hysterical lesbians and respectable gays. Lesbian anonymity in mainstream LGBT+ and grassroots activisms
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Gender Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1630-1388
2024 (English)In: Journal of Lesbian Studies, ISSN 1089-4160, E-ISSN 1540-3548, p. 1-20Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This article is informed by sixteen in-depth interviews with LGBT + activists in Romania, my archive and notes during my involvement in feminist and queer activist circles, as well as archival materials of an LGBT + NGO. It proposes the concept of lesbian anonymity as a means of investigating the way in which marginal positions within mainstream movements are anonymized and their contributions to the movement dispersed within the generic queer/gay activism. By looking at specific case studies from Romaniás transition period (1989 to mid 2000s), I analyze how matters of representation were tackled within the LGBT + mainstream movements in relation to grassroots activist circles. The article explores what happens when queer gatekeepers fail to engage with internal criticisms concerning the selective erasure of certain categories of voices such as queer women, trans people, racialized people, sex workers. I argue that lesbian anonymity offers another angle of analyzing the clashes between and within different LGBT + groups in post-socialist spaces. How does lesbian anonymity shape the queer movements and why is it important to keep representational issues in mind while working on non-normative sexualities, gender, and women´s reproductive rights? This contribution offers a necessary critique of the representational gaps within queer movements.

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Routledge, 2024. p. 1-20
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-54587DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2381854ISI: 001293877400001PubMedID: 39155789Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85201563056OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-54587DiVA, id: diva2:1890620
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EU, Horizon 2020, 101022731Available from: 2024-08-20 Created: 2024-08-20 Last updated: 2024-09-02Bibliographically approved

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