Over the last three decades, many countries across the world, including the United States,
have experienced major increases in support for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual …

This article focuses on the link between the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) people in national legislatures and the existence of equality laws …

Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between
liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town …

Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the world. While residents in
some nations have embraced gay rights as human rights, people in many other countries …

From individual experiences of prejudice to international political debate around equal
rights, social attitudes towards sexuality and transgender equalities are evolving. This timely …

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa,
bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity …

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a
history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins in gay and anti-apartheid activism to …

How does one address homophobia without threatening majority rule democracy and
freedoms of speech and faith? How does one" Africanize" sexuality research, empirically …

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated
through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The …

This study addresses the apparent paradox that South Africa's gay, lesbian and bisexual
(GLB) movement, although opposed by the vast majority of the population, has progressed …