Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 18, Issue 2, 2015

Abstract This article deals with the issue of self-organisation among male sex workers with male clients (M$M). Specific research questions are: What are the barriers and opportunities with regard to self-organisation among M$M in the Netherlands? Which subcategories of M$M are most inclined to self-organisation? To what extent could solidarity with female sex workers be pursued? Since 1971, three successive phases c Read More

Abstract Debates on gay and lesbian advocacy in the Netherlands have often revolved around the role of the political culture of pillarisation in facilitating or hindering the gay and lesbian (GL) social movement. Pillarisation ended, however, just as the GL movement was beginning to gain momentum. In this article, gay and lesbian advocacy is examined from 1986-1994, during which the government engaged in designing Read More

Abstract In Western collective memory, male and female homosexual activism has been considered a product of the 1960s. Although most sociohistorical literature on the homosexual movement in Western Europe and the United States shows homosexual activism existed before, it narrates the history of the movement in a linear way. According to this linear narrative, the Western homosexual movement started in t Read More

Abstract Dit artikel doet verslag van exploratief onderzoek naar de doelen en activiteiten van Nederlandse LHBT-werknemersnetwerken en naar wat actieve leden binnen deze netwerken motiveert. Bovendien wordt onderzocht in hoeverre we van deze netwerken kunnen leren hoe burgers praktisch vorm kunnen geven aan zowel neorepublikeins als seksueel burgerschap. Op basis van interviews met leidende personen binn Read More