The pink line across digital publics
Political homophobia and the queer strategies of everyday life during Covid-19 in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12527422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tunay Altay (0000-0002-6069-4134, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1_suppl |
| Pages | 60S-74S |
| Publication date | 2022-01-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5068 • E-ISSN: 1461-7420 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13505068221076329 |
| OpenAlex | W4210819872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 16 |
COVID-19 has precipitated an increase in political homophobia in Turkey. This article focuses on the interlocking processes of LGBTQ marginalization and exclusion in Turkey with the purpose of uncovering how political homophobia is enforced, experienced, and navigated by LGBTQ people in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, pink line and queer strategies, I first propose a multi-layered conceptualization of political homophobia that is drawn through (1) anti-LGBTQ boundary regimes that shape the everyday lives of LGBTQ people and (2) sexualized bordering processes that filter and block digital LGBTQ representation and visibility in Turkey’s digital publics. I then analyze the everyday strategic uses of digital platfroms by LGBTQ activists and community organizers in Turkey. Invested in this complexity, this article draws from the ethnographic data of 20 interviews with LGBTQ people whose lives have crossed paths in several digital LGBTQ groups during the pandemic. Henceforth I argue that these digital LGBTQ groups have facilitated ways of connectivity among LGBTQ people in Turkey which limit exposure to the COVID-19 virus while partially freeing them from the restrictive limits of the nation-state and its political homophobia
Conceptualization · Ethnography · Everyday life · Political science · Politics · Publics · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Media and Politics
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| Citations per year | 4.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |