Sexual citizenship in Latvia

This study examines sexual citizenship in Latvia. It investigates the process by which political narratives have heterosexed the nation since regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. My aim in exploring this process is to develop a deeper understanding of non-heteronormative identities and counter-hegemonic spaces in this heterosexist society. Drawing on discourse analysis of political media statements I argue that despite the legalizing of homosexuality, political narratives have continued to sex the nation as heterosexual, forging the national closet. I then explore how these narratives become experienced in lives of sexual minorities through the state's failure to prevent sexual discrimination. Drawing on participant observation and a decoding of the urban landscape, I investigate how the Latvian closet is materialized in the bodies and places of the everyday lives of ‘gay’ men living in the capital, Riga. Examined in this way insights are given to the spatial forms of political resistance to heterosexism in Latvia and how it differs from western models

Citizenship · Closet · Hegemony · Heteronormativity · Heterosexism · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Latvian · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sexual identity · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition

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