“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey

Summary, in English

This article analyses the #HerYürüyüşümüzOnurYürüyüşü (Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade) hashtag campaign for 2019 Pride month in Turkey, expressing the collective frustration of the LGBTI+ community against long-lasting bans for LGBTI+ events and public assembly. Drawing on a digital ethnography from Twitter, the article explores networked resistances within the complexity of online and offline entanglements of activism during Istanbul Pride 2019. The multimodal discourse analysis conducted in this article focuses on the interactions of digital affordances and embodied street actions in rearticulating queer political places. The study emphasizes the important role of hashtag activism in the (re)making of place as a trans-located experience, as well as affording emergent LGBTI+ resistances.

• Author: Onur Kilic
• Publishing year: 2021-12-17
• Language: English
• Pages: 731-747
• Publication/Series: Sexualities
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 7
• Links: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13634607211060510; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/136346072110605
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Topic: Gender Studies
• Keywords: LGBTIQA+; Digital activism; queer activism; Turkey; Sexuality & Gender Studies; digital ethnography; Gender Studies; discourse analysis; HBTQ+; digitala kulturer; queer activism; Turkiet; Genusvetenskap; diskursanalys; digital etnografi
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1363-4607