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TY - JOUR
T1 - Godly Homonormativity
T2 - Christian LGBT Organizing in Contemporary Poland
AU - Mikulak, Magdalena
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2019/3/21
Y1 - 2019/3/21
N2 - This article discusses the emergence of Christian LGBT organizing in Poland and the production of what I term godly homonormativity via a particular strand of organizing exemplified by Wiara i Tęcza (WiT; Faith and Rainbow). I argue that despite being an important initiative representing people—LGBT Christians—whose voices are often excluded from the mainstream LGBT movement, WiT’s project is a largely assimilationist one, seeking acceptance within the existing patriarchal and highly inequitable power relationship of the Catholic Church. Consequently, WiT is generative of a mostly normalizing set of ideas that reinforces rather than challenges heteronormativity and that also colludes with the neoliberal project that promotes “a privileged form of gay life that attempts to replicate aspects of state”—and in the case of WiT church—endorsed “heterosexual primacy and prestige located in the home” (Brown, 2009, p. 1499).
AB - This article discusses the emergence of Christian LGBT organizing in Poland and the production of what I term godly homonormativity via a particular strand of organizing exemplified by Wiara i Tęcza (WiT; Faith and Rainbow). I argue that despite being an important initiative representing people—LGBT Christians—whose voices are often excluded from the mainstream LGBT movement, WiT’s project is a largely assimilationist one, seeking acceptance within the existing patriarchal and highly inequitable power relationship of the Catholic Church. Consequently, WiT is generative of a mostly normalizing set of ideas that reinforces rather than challenges heteronormativity and that also colludes with the neoliberal project that promotes “a privileged form of gay life that attempts to replicate aspects of state”—and in the case of WiT church—endorsed “heterosexual primacy and prestige located in the home” (Brown, 2009, p. 1499).
KW - Christian LGBT organizing
KW - homonormativity
KW - LGBT movement
KW - Poland
KW - religion
KW - sexuality
U2 - 10.1080/00918369.2017.1414501
DO - 10.1080/00918369.2017.1414501
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29220624
AN - SCOPUS:85041134625
VL - 66
SP - 487
EP - 509
JO - Journal of Homosexuality
JF - Journal of Homosexuality
SN - 0091-8369
IS - 4
ER -