Queer Politics of Pride

Daniel Conway is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK and a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published extensively on LGBTQ+ activism and South African politics and society. He is the author of Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (with Pauline Leonard, 2014) and Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa, (2012). Conway is a previous chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Section of the International Studies Association.

Through captivating ethnographic accounts and detailed analysis, Conway shows us how Pride has become a conduit for the gentrification of queer life, while also demonstrating how rebellious queer activists around the world creatively refuse this incorporation. This should be the definitive book on the global politics of Pride

• 1 The Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism2: A Queer Conceptualization of Pride 3. Pride as a ‘Mirror’, not a ‘Microcosm’, of Society: Conflicts over Race, Class and Gender4. Corporate Pride, Commercialization and the Global Pride Circuit 5. Rainbow Diplomacy: Pride, the State and National Identity6. Reclaiming Pride: Queer and Alternative Pride Organizing7. Conclusion: Homocapitalism and the Queer Politics of Pride Bibliography Index