Anabtawi, Samer;
(2022)
Snatching Legal Victory: LGBTQ Rights Activism and Contestation in the Arab World.
Arab Law Quarterly
10.1163/15730255-bja10112.
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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between emergent LGBTQ movements and the state in the Arab world over the past two decades. Focusing on the efforts of various LGBTQ social movements to confront the criminalization of homosexuality in the Arab region, the article puzzles over a cascade of legal victories for LGBTQ rights advocates in Lebanon in recent years in spite of a hostile justice sector mired with corruption. It interrogates a set of prevalent assumptions about the effect of regime type (democracy v. authoritarianism) on gay rights activism and litigation. This article explains how some LGBTQ Arab movements have successfully relied on strategic litigation to confront criminalization laws while others have had less success in pursuing overtly confrontational approaches. The paired comparison between Tunisia and Lebanon shifts our focus back to the agency of judges and social movement leaders in shaping legal outcomes for LGBTQ citizens.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Snatching Legal Victory: LGBTQ Rights Activism and Contestation in the Arab World |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15730255-bja10112 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10112 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. |
| Keywords: | Legal mobilization; legal opportunity structure; strategic litigation; gay rights; democracy and minority rights; sodomy laws; Tunisia; Lebanon |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10153312 |
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