(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #235 - Homonationalisme: Nationalism for all (fr, pt)

In 2007, Jasbir Puar conceptualizes homonationalisme. This discourse argues that the 
progressive LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans) unien states would face the "delay" of 
Muslims. In Europe and especially in France, a similar speech starts last ten years to be 
heard. ---- Sexual nationalism is the process by which elites wear of gendered categories 
to make the national myth. We build a European tending towards greater freedom of manners 
also uses categories of gender and sexuality. To understand the history of nationalism, 
think about all the history of France as a city and as a colonial power. ---- The European 
masculine ideal of the nineteenth century is linked to nationalism. European nations 
embody the masculine and heterosexual metaphor used to think colonization with an active 
and a passive pole: Europe is a manly body, Africa is a land to penetrate.

Descriptions involve racialized gender and sexuality indistinct sexual characters among 
Africans, analyzed as a sign of inferiority (as low es hairy men and women, aggressive 
women genitals too large), unbridled sexuality that approaches animals, African animal 
heterosexuality against European domestic heterosexuality.

Colonial imaginary

The nineteenth-century Europe denies homosexuality in Africa: Africans and African, nature 
beings moved by instinct can not be heterosexual. Europeans and European normal accessed 
civilization which moralise sexuality. When civilization deviates, Europeans and European 
abnormal, but civilized perverted appear: homosexuals. These deviant inside should be treated.

Since the 1970s, there has been a movement of politicization and greater visibility of 
LGBT organizations. Visibility still asymmetric (the lesbians are less) affecting urban 
white middle class, cultivated. It becomes less legitimate to openly denounce 
homosexuality and homophobic language to mask. Therefore, the old discourse on the absence 
of homosexuals in Africa renews itself: there are no homosexuals in Africa because there 
is too much homophobia. European civilization itself being culturally homophile!

Ayatollahs within

Today, unlike in the nineteenth century, the other, non-Western, non-white, is not only 
home he is also with us. The homonationalisme is precisely this strategy to defend his 
stronghold: it requires migrants to Europe real test of civilization in which the 
homosexual question two women's issues. In France in 2011, the blue-white-red poster LGBT 
center for Pride March on which there is a rooster with the slogan "In 2011 I walk, I vote 
in 2012" is controversial. Lesbians of Color and Gay Muslims react France. The Chair of 
LGBT center replica by a letter entitled "Ayatollahs of the Interior," communalism taxing 
people who denounce the racism of this poster and according to her, despise the republican 
ideal. Lesbians of Color then criminalize ethnocentrism struggles gays in the text " Ni 
cockerel or laying hen . "

The criminalization of homosexuality is a concern in international forums when it comes to 
point non-Western countries. Bad students "progress" are stigmatized on behalf of gay rights.

Rhetoric between the struggles against sexual oppression anti-racist struggles develops. 
They are seen as competing or incompatible. The refusal of homophobia is instrumentalized 
as a western value, serving as a benchmark for "good integration" descendants of 
colonized-es, and any attempt at political denunciation of this mechanism remains 
inaudible and disqualified.

Gis?le (antiracist Commission)