Women and gender studies

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Homonationalism

Homonationalism is the favorable association between a nationalist ideology and LGBT people or their rights.

Homonationalism involves conceptually realigning the ideas invested within the realm of LGBT activism to fit the goals and ideologies of neoliberalism and the far-right. This reframing is used primarily to justify and rationalize racist and xenophobic perspectives.

The term was originally proposed by the researcher in gender studies Jasbir K. Puar in 2007 to refer to the processes by which some powers line up with the claims of the LGBTI community in order to justify racist, xenophobic and aporophobic positions, especially against Islam, basing them on prejudices that migrant people are homophobic and that Western society is egalitarian.[1][2] Thus, sexual diversity and LGBT rights are used to sustain political stances against immigration, being increasingly common among far-right parties