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Changing families and communities: an LGBT contribution to an alternative development path

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Until now, most discussions on the place of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) people in global civil society have focused on their access to citizenship, rather than their socio-economic rights and role in development processes. This article argues that an alternative vision of development should challenge heteronormative family structures; build alternative, queer communities; wage activist, sexually emancipatory campaigns on concrete social issues (as the Treatment Action Campaign has done on HIV and AIDS in South Africa); and rethink existing models of democratic participation. The author emphasises the paradoxes of LGBT organisation in the context of neo-liberalism and globalisation, with an eye toward queering, or challenging heteronormativity in, global social-justice movements.

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  • Peter Drucker, 2009. "Changing families and communities: an LGBT contribution to an alternative development path," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(7), pages 825-836.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:19:y:2009:i:7:p:825-836
    DOI: 10.1080/09614520903122121
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