ABSTRACT
This chapter directly addresses the core question that underpins this book, and it analyses the advocacy agenda of LGBTI NGOs at the HR Council. It is shown that LGBTI NGOs advocate for those rights that enhance the domestic political opportunities of peripheral NGOs. Moreover, to maximise their opportunities, gatekeeper NGOs frame LGBTI issues as an anti-discrimination framework because it is pragmatic and it matches existing international human rights treaties. Finally, as a litmus test of this study, the chapter investigates whether gatekeeper NGOs impose perceived Western priorities, such as the advocacy for the right to marry, upon peripheral NGOs. It appears that gatekeeper NGOs consider that advocating for the right to marry is not a good transnational advocacy strategy. Therefore, they do not impose such advocacy upon their less powerful peripheral partners. These dynamics explain that issues like prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of SOGII, decriminalisation of same-sex sexual behaviour and prohibition of violence based on SOGII have a high priority in the advocacy agenda of LGBTI TANs working at the UN, while the advocacy for the right to marry does not.
