%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®In Sweden, girls are allowed to kiss girls, and boys are allowed to kiss boys¡¯: Pride J£¿rva and the inclusion of the ¡®LGBT other¡¯ in Swedish nationalist discourses
%A Katharina Kehl
%J Sexualities
%@ 1461-7382
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1363460717748621
%X This article discusses Pride J£¿rva, a ¡®gay pride¡¯ march organised by right-wing publicist Jan Sjunnesson in Stockholm¡¯s northern suburbs. Analysing the event, and in particular a speech made by Sjunnesson during the parade in July 2016, I argue that it is indicative of the specific ways in which right-wing actors in Europe increasingly enlist LGBT rights in nationalist, xenophobic and racist projects of exclusion. As markers of tolerant and progressive ¡®Europeanness¡¯, they are used to construct and reproduce dangerous racialised and Islamic others along lines of sexuality and gender, a narrative that resonates with established notions of Swedish gender exceptionalism as well as homonationalist-orientalist narratives of threat and protection. Despite their history of actively opposing the expansion of LGBT rights, Sjunnesson and his political associates combine these narratives with a conceptualisation of LGBT issues as private and depoliticised to produce themselves as the ¡®true¡¯ protectors of LGBT rights in Sweden
%K Homonationalism
%K LGBT
%K nationalism
%K othering
%K Swedish gender exceptionalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363460717748621