The institutionalization of LGBTIQ+ equality in EU countries between advancements and oppositions: policies, actors, arenas
In 2020, the European Commission adopted an LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 “addressing the inequalities and challenges affecting LGBTIQ people, in order to move towards a Union of Equality”. The EU strategy is one of the results of the “Europeanization” of and through LGBTIQ+ rights, enhanced by the Recommendation 2010/5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity. Since 2010, LGBTIQ+ equality policies have been entering the institutional agendas in all the EU countries, gaining visibility and triggering protests in the public sphere and within institutions. Nevertheless, the variation in the trajectories of LGBTIQ+ policies in the EU27 and the reasons behind this situation have received little attention in the emerging literature on LGBTIQ+ equality policies.
The project will unveil the influence of the multiple factors investigated and, based on existing and newly generated data, it will assess the determinants of the variation in the institutionalization of LGBTIQ+ equality in the EU. The LGBTIQ+POL researchers will be committed to the open science’s principles, not only providing open access resources (datasets and reports) and publications, but also a comprehensive method of good practices improving quality, efficiency and responsiveness of research, and accessibility to different targets such as scientific, policy and public audiences.
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Project's Aims
The LGBTIQ+POL project’s major aim is to perform a longitudinal cross-national analysis on EU27 member states (from 2010 onwards) through both existing and newly built original datasets, on the one hand, and theory-generating case studies, on the other. Ultimately, it will assess the determinants of LGBTIQ+ Equality in EU27.
Italy
Special attention will be paid to Italy as a specific case study presenting, in the covered time frame, a critical configuration regarding the intensification of LGBTIQ+ policy agendas, the emergence of strongly politicized anti-LGBTIQ+ movements, and a sharpening of conflicts within the institutional arena.
The project is coherently structured around concrete and original research objectives (RO), as follows:
Defining the context of LGBTIQ+ policies and identifying the legal, social and political dimensions of LGBTIQ+ equality among the EU27.
Mapping and analyzing quantitative and qualitative aspects of anti-LGBTIQ+ protests in EU27.
Examining the institutionalization of LGBTIQ+ policies in a selected number of EU countries, through the analysis of the policymaking process in the parliamentary arena.
Testing the actual influence of the multiple factors investigated and assessing the major determinants of the variation in LGBTIQ+ Equality among the EU countries.
