ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the global issues pertaining to sexuality as a dimension of power in the political sphere. It addresses some questions with regards to the concept of global sexual politics to complicate the North-centric rescue narrative of subalternized sexualities and genders in non-Western geographies. The chapter describes homophobia in ways that challenge the dominant revisionist notion, which casts it as easily and inherently attributable to a specifically located culture. It explores how the position of rescuing queers has come to be conceptualized as unproblematic and unmarked under neoliberal capitalism. The chapter explores the tensions and contradictions within Western LGBT politics, in particular when this politics holds the pretense of acting on a global scale by increasingly relying on the human rights framework. It focuses on conceptualizations of political identity formations and the antagonistic nature of intersubjective interactions and relationships under liberal democracy.
