Drawing on social movements and gender studies, the article aims at exploring repertoires of action articulated by LGBTQ communities in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey during and after the 2011 and 2013 protests. The aim is to disentangle how LGBTQ individuals mobilized in the MENA region and which role civil society organizations and digital technologies played in the development of such mobilizations. State repression ofn mobilizing structures, the relevance of digital networks in mobilization strategies, involving LGBTQ activists and individuals in the three countries, will be discussed. The empirical analysis draws on 44 semi-structured interviews carried out in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey between 2011 and 2020 focusing on repressive contexts, civil society activism, and digital networks. By doing so, the analysis aims also to shed light on the roles played by both meso-level organizations and digital technologies in triggering a range of diverse repertoires of action. If in the three countries LGBTQ communities have been disproportionally targeted by state and non-state repressive campaigns, in Egypt LGBTQ activists challenged repression thanks to the use of social networks as alternative venues for socialization, while in Tunisia and Turkey, LGBTQ activists, drawing upon more established meso-level mobilizing structures, built-up new strategies with the aim to increase their cooperation with other political challengers.

LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: the struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey / Acconcia, Giuseppe; Perego, Aurora; Perini, Lorenza. - In: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES. - ISSN 1474-2837. - 2022:(2022), pp. 1-20. [10.1080/14742837.2022.2070739]

LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: the struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey

Perego, Aurora
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2022-01-01

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Drawing on social movements and gender studies, the article aims at exploring repertoires of action articulated by LGBTQ communities in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey during and after the 2011 and 2013 protests. The aim is to disentangle how LGBTQ individuals mobilized in the MENA region and which role civil society organizations and digital technologies played in the development of such mobilizations. State repression ofn mobilizing structures, the relevance of digital networks in mobilization strategies, involving LGBTQ activists and individuals in the three countries, will be discussed. The empirical analysis draws on 44 semi-structured interviews carried out in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey between 2011 and 2020 focusing on repressive contexts, civil society activism, and digital networks. By doing so, the analysis aims also to shed light on the roles played by both meso-level organizations and digital technologies in triggering a range of diverse repertoires of action. If in the three countries LGBTQ communities have been disproportionally targeted by state and non-state repressive campaigns, in Egypt LGBTQ activists challenged repression thanks to the use of social networks as alternative venues for socialization, while in Tunisia and Turkey, LGBTQ activists, drawing upon more established meso-level mobilizing structures, built-up new strategies with the aim to increase their cooperation with other political challengers.
2022
Acconcia, Giuseppe; Perego, Aurora; Perini, Lorenza
LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: the struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey / Acconcia, Giuseppe; Perego, Aurora; Perini, Lorenza. - In: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES. - ISSN 1474-2837. - 2022:(2022), pp. 1-20. [10.1080/14742837.2022.2070739]
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