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“The Pink Agenda ”: The Challenges of Promoting Queer-Friendly Policies Abroad

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By analysing issues relating to the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of association for LGBTQI persons, specifically in the context of Eastern Europe , as well as claims of LGBTQI asylum-seekers in Europe, this chapter analyses the way in which a geography of queer -friendly versus homo- and transphobic member states of the CoE is created in the case law of the ECtHR. The chapter employs the term “Pink Agenda ” to indicate the set of measures enacted at the domestic and international level in order to promote a specific type of European homonationalist identity within and outside the borders of Europe.

This chapter has appeared as: Ammaturo, F.R. 2015. The “Pink Agenda”: Questioning and Challenging European Homonationalist Citizenship. Sociology, 49(6): 1151–116.

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Ammaturo, F.R. (2017). “The Pink Agenda ”: The Challenges of Promoting Queer-Friendly Policies Abroad. In: European Sexual Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41974-9_4

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