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The right to a rainbow city: the Italian homosexual social movements
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Abstract Nowadays, the legal status of homosexual people varies widely from one country to another (ILGA 2019). In many contexts, the homosexual social movement has played a central role in fighting heterosexism and homophobia (Weinberg 1983). Especially in the democratic world, the homosexual social movemen... mehr
Nowadays, the legal status of homosexual people varies widely from one country to another (ILGA 2019). In many contexts, the homosexual social movement has played a central role in fighting heterosexism and homophobia (Weinberg 1983). Especially in the democratic world, the homosexual social movement has been capable of spreading solidarity and inclusion and also of leading changes in regulatory terms, with different results context by context (Adam, Duyvendak, Krouwel 1999). The paper aims to point out the Italian situation and the main characteristics of the gay social movement in Italy as key factors of the social change. More specifically, the paper is aimed at recounting the political process and the symbolic and cultural factors that led the Italian homosexual social movement to impose itself on the social scene as a reality with its own specific identity. The paper's last section analyses the so-called "Italian rainbow cities", urban contexts where the LGBT community is highly concentrated and in which it is so active as to stimulate, in cooperation with the local urban administrations, capacity-building processes oriented to the construction and consolidation of LGBT people’s rights and social inclusion.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Italien; Homosexualität
Klassifikation
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
homosexual movement; rainbow cities; Mayors; LGBT
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 69-86
Zeitschriftentitel
Society Register, 4 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14746/sr.2020.4.4.03
ISSN
2544-5502
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)