LGBT
communities and struggles in the dependent world
Peter Drucker
Global Justice
School 2003
Introduction
Discussing
sexuality as Marxists and feminists
The discussion in the FI
Goals of report
Limits of report
I. The
diversity of same-sex sexualities
Desire, behaviour and
identity
Different social
constructions of same-sex sexuality
Transgender:
African and African-derived forms
Transgenerational:
the Islamic world
Transgenerational/transgender:
Moroccan example
“Lesbian/gay”:
welfare state, identity, community, and ghetto
Transgender and
gay in the dependent world: the role of class
“LGBT”
II. Capitalist
development, globalization and same-sex sexualities
Family, reproduction,
gender roles and the heterosexual norm (points 1-2 of the FI resolution)
Colonial repression
Neoliberalism: social and
sexual polarization
The impact of economic crises
(1982, 1997)
Bolshevism, Stalinism and
Maoism
PRT (Mexico),
ANC (South Africa)
IV. Issues in
organizing
Against
repression and fundamentalism (points 10 and 15 of the FI resolution)
Sex trade and
sex tourism: self-organization (points 3 and 4)
An inclusive
movement: transgenders, bisexuals, “MSMs”, injongas (points 18 and 19)
LGBT migrants:
globalizing resistance (point 14)
The AIDS
crisis, homosexual and heterosexual: multinationals and governments (point 16)
Against
neoliberalism: beginnings in Porto Alegre and Florence (point 7)
Banning
discrimination: the South African example (point 11)
V. Our
(potential) lesbian/gay comrades (point 27)