ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some concluding remarks and recommendations for future studies on the subject. The empirical contribution of the book is the identification of the advocacy agenda of the LGBTI TANs working at the UN, which – along with the support of some governments and some international organisations functionaries, and despite the opposition of conservative/religious states and NGOs – are lobbying the UN to consolidate a human rights standard that forbids any form of discrimination on the grounds of SOGII. As a theoretical contribution, this book rebuts the common assumption that gatekeeper NGOs act hegemonically. First, LGBTI gatekeeper NGOs can be taken as an example of good practice because they are working to build a more democratic LGBTI TAN from below, and therefore they minimise interference. Second, gatekeeper NGOs do not impose marriage equality advocacy upon the periphery of the LGBTI TANs, and in doing so they minimise their interference and their misuse of power.
