A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society
Queer gender and sexuality is largely condemned in the mainstream heterosexual Zimbabwean media and culture. Politicians have politicized queer identities and sexuality to win over what is perceived to be a homophobic majority. President Robert Mugabe is probably Africa’s most articulate and virulen...
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| author | Mhiripiri, Nhamo A. Moyo, Sithandazile B. |
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| description | Queer gender and sexuality is largely condemned in the mainstream heterosexual Zimbabwean media and culture. Politicians have politicized queer identities and sexuality to win over what is perceived to be a homophobic majority. President Robert Mugabe is probably Africa’s most articulate and virulent critic of homosexuality and queer culture. The civil society organization Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) represents a social movement that has struggled to put its issues into the public sphere, at times winning cases in Zimbabwean courts of law. It is a social movement for lesbian, gays, bisexual, transgendered, transvestite and other so-called ‘queer’ sexuality and identities. This study focuses on how GALZ uses Facebook as an alternative platform of communication using online ethnographic interaction between defenders and critics of the LGTB community in Zimbabwe |
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| spelling | ir-11408-44422022-06-27T13:49:05Z A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society Mhiripiri, Nhamo A. Moyo, Sithandazile B. Gender Sexuality Culture Queer gender and sexuality is largely condemned in the mainstream heterosexual Zimbabwean media and culture. Politicians have politicized queer identities and sexuality to win over what is perceived to be a homophobic majority. President Robert Mugabe is probably Africa’s most articulate and virulent critic of homosexuality and queer culture. The civil society organization Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) represents a social movement that has struggled to put its issues into the public sphere, at times winning cases in Zimbabwean courts of law. It is a social movement for lesbian, gays, bisexual, transgendered, transvestite and other so-called ‘queer’ sexuality and identities. This study focuses on how GALZ uses Facebook as an alternative platform of communication using online ethnographic interaction between defenders and critics of the LGTB community in Zimbabwe 2021-06-10T08:43:36Z 2021-06-10T08:43:36Z 2016 Book chapter 978-3-319-40948-1 978-3-319-40949-8 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40949-8_12 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40949-8_12 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4442 en Digital Activism in the Social Media Era;Chapter: p. 249-269 open Palgrave Macmillan, Cham |
| spellingShingle | Gender Sexuality Culture Mhiripiri, Nhamo A. Moyo, Sithandazile B. A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| title | A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| title_full | A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| title_fullStr | A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| title_full_unstemmed | A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| title_short | A resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of Zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| title_sort | resilient unwanted civil society: the gays and lesbians of zimbabwe use of facebook as alternative public sphere in a dominant homophobic society |
| topic | Gender Sexuality Culture |
| url | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40949-8_12 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40949-8_12 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4442 |
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